"The Grand Prix of Germany wins one of the best of my career," says Lewis Hamilton | sport

Lewis Hamilton described his performance by winning the Grand Prix of Germany as one of the best of his career. The British driver came in 14th place to win the race and noted that his experience in karting was crucial for his ability to cross the pack.

Mercedes team manager, Toto Wolff, also insisted that the team Hamilton's teammate, Valtteri Bottas, did not attempt to overtake him, but his drivers continued to run freely to the team. # 39; future.

Hamilton won an unlikely win at Hockenheim, making his way through the pack, then taking advantage of the rain affected the last third of the race. The race had seemed to be in the hands of his rival Sebastian Vettel until the German crushes after losing his car on the wet surface.

Hamilton chose not to pit when the circuit was treacherous. hold good for the win despite a fierce attack by Bottas. The victory was a blow for Vettel, who took the championship lead eight points behind and is now heading to the next round in Hungary with a 17-point deficit in Hamilton.

The British driver never won a race of less than sixth place on the front grid and having started in the midfield after a mechanical failure qualifying his expectations of the limitation of damage to the best. However, he achieved a remarkable performance.

"Saturday was a difficult day, when I sat near the car, I was not in tears or anything, but it was heartbreaking". "You have to transform all your positive energy to try to do something about it.Every time there is a day like this, it's a chance to show what you can do. Driving to the back is always more fun than driving from the front, but you never know where you can go in. Sunday, I have the impression of riding better than I remember driving. "

The four-time world champion has often mentioned his 2008 Great Britain Grand Prix victory as a remarkable performance, where he drove superbly to take victory in the wet. from the fourth on the grid he was racing in a class of his own, beating ever faster than the rest of the pack, but he considered the German Grand Prix to be a top race

"I had many other races and there have been others, "he said." Silverstone 2008 was pretty good but I I left, so it was 99.8%. That one, I did not make any mistakes at all, which I'm really proud of. "

He also recalled the kart with which he had started and how he had informed his success." The kart I had was really old, it belonged to five different families. I always started at the back and I had to go through more experienced and faster karts and that 's where I learned to do it. "

With Hamilton in the lead after the restart following the Vettel accident, he was pursued by Bottas who nearly passed him but who was then ordered to park at Mercedes. . The team was anxious not to lose the result after such a hectic race, but it would not impose any other orders to Bottas

"The race is the most important," Wolff said. . "We've always said that if the championship were in its last third or quarter and there was a big difference between the drivers, we could make those unpopular calls, but it's way too early to do that. Today, we did it to bring a house back to two.

"If it was the other way around, with Valtteri in the lead and Lewis second, we would have made the same call. , an identical call. "

There was another tragedy after the end of the race with Hamilton summoned to the commissaires for crossing the pit lane entry line when he chose not to go out. To stop at the last moment after a series of contradictory messages from his team He could have lost the victory but received a reprimand, almost three hours after the checkered flag.

FIA Race Director, Charlie Whiting, said that Ferrari had not protested against the action s of Hamilton and explained why long. "It takes a bit of time to make sure that if you call a team, you have good reason to call them," he said. "We wanted to wait until the end of the race to look at it as we were nearing the end and by the time everything calmed down we needed to take a look at it and the delegates decided that they should discuss it with the team. "