article_snippet.sent: So why did the world champion not push on and try to pass the world champion team-mate rather than ask the world champion pit wall engineers to tell Lewis Hamilton to speed up so Lewis Hamilton could move away from Vettel?
article_snippet.sent: But the reason is, I did try to attack Lewis in the first stint, and It just didn’t work.
article_snippet.sent: So in the second stint there was no point to do that again, because this time there was Vettel right behind and it would’ve really risked my second place if I had tried that, because I would have completely destroyed my tyres, again, and Vettel could have had a really good shot at overtaking me.
article_snippet.sent: My only chance of winning the race anyway, or to fight Lewis, or try to overtake Lewis, would have come at the end of the race, so that’s what I was building up to.
article_snippet.sent: ‘The worst part of the weekend was losing out to Lewis in qualifying.
article_snippet.sent: It’s just now interesting to hear from you, Lewis, that you were just thinking about you with the pace in front, and necessarily that was compromising the race.
article_snippet.sent: Driving slower than was maybe necessary at the beginning of stints meant that Sebastian was very close to you and that opened up the opportunity for Sebastian to try that early pit-stop to try and jump me.
article_snippet.sent: And then I had to cover Sebastian.
article_snippet.sent: So, first of all it was unnecessarily close with Sebastian as a result, and also it cost me a lot of race time as a result because I had to cover Sebastian
article_snippet.sent: and then my tyres died at the end of the race because my stint was just so much longer.