Lewis Hamilton Caught Between Defence & Attack in 2014 Abu Dhabi GP Qualifying

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Published: November 22, 2014

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It was shortly after his victory in September's Singapore Grand Prix that Lewis Hamilton announced his game plan for the remainder of the 2014 Formula One season.

The Briton's pole-to-flag win at the Marina Bay street circuit, coupled with the retirement of Nico Rosberg, his Mercedes team-mate and title rival, had allowed Hamilton to transform a 22-point deficit into a three-point advantage in the standings with just five races remaining. 

Despite returning to the top of the championship for the first time since May's Spanish Grand Prix, Hamilton was reluctant to alter his approach, telling Sky Sports' Pete Gill:

I still feel like I am hunting, I still feel like I am chasing—and that’s a good feeling.

This is game time. This is about hunting. In my head, I don’t think I am leading the championship. There are still five races left and all I’m going to do is what I’ve done in the last two races, which is just attack every session.

The predatory mindset clearly worked a treat.

Singapore was the second in a career-best run of five consecutive wins, which saw the 2008 world champion also triumph in Italy, Japan, Russia and the United States, taking the championship out of Rosberg's reach in the process.



The German, for his part, was a sitting duck for much of that period. He would steal a pole position here and there—as he did at the Suzuka and Austin circuits—and hold the lead for a time, as he did in all but one of those grands prix.

But the sight of the No. 6 car a few metres up the road was not a challenge to Hamilton's superiority—it was a target to aim at. 

Rosberg's attempts to run away at the front would only lead Hamilton into retaliation, elevating the British driver to an even higher level of performance.



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