After winning his second podium of 2022, Lewis Hamilton was praised by Mercedes boss Toto Wolff, who pointed out the bad luck of the seven-time champion at some moments of the season
Lewis Hamilton finally got back on the podium at the Canadian Grand Prix, held last Sunday (19), something that had not happened since the opening of the Formula 1 season in Bahrain. Starting from the fourth position, the Briton took advantage of Fernando Alonso's fall in the grid to gain a place and finish third, behind only Carlos Sainz and Max Verstappen - who won. After the race, the Briton drew several compliments from his boss at Mercedes, Toto Wolff.
"You have to accept the podium as a good result, especially one that came on merit," Wolff celebrated. "But I'm very happy for Lewis [Hamilton], because he really was at a disadvantage in some races, when the safety-car, for example, was against him," the Mercedes boss said.
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Wolff gave even more value to Hamilton's podium in Canada after a series of races in which the driver was unlucky, such as the safety-car entries in Australia and Miami, and the touch with Kevin Magnussen on the first lap in Barcelona - when Mercedes finally presented a good pace. With all the champion's bad luck, Toto argued that it was time to celebrate a little.
"He could have reached the podium and achieved much better results," the Austrian assessed. "It was never anything wrong that he did, just a lack of luck. To see him on the podium without anything being given to him... that's good to see," he celebrated.
Mercedes' performance in Canada has given the team something to hang on to with a view to a continued Formula One season, and Wolff stressed that the team still needs to work hard if it wants to elevate the W13 to a truly competitive level in the category.
"I think we're all happy with the fifth podium, and we've had some glimpses of the performance we have," he explained. "But it's a long way from expectations, our own expectations in ourselves. Everybody is in a good place. But still, as I said before, there is still a lot of work to be done," he closed.