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Hamilton drives fastest in push for points
Hamilton goes “on a charge,” delivering the Fastest Lap of the Italian GP while pushing hard for position and much-needed championship points.
Talk about fast. Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton raced lap 51 at the historic Autodromo di Monza circuit in 1min 25.849sec – some six-tenths of the second faster than anyone else on the race track on Sunday. He followed it up with the second fastest lap of the day as he pushed his silver arrow to catch Lotus-Renault’s Romain Grosjean and STR-Ferrari’s Daniel Ricciardo, who were battling it out for seventh and eighth place.
Finding himself on fresh mediums at the end of the Italian Grand Prix, Hamilton went “on a charge,” says DHL F1® Expert, Christian Danner, pushing hard for position and much-needed championship points in the final laps and delivers the day’s Fastest Lap.
Though Hamilton was unable to close the gap to Grosjean and Ricciardo completely, his superb performance in the Grand Prix’s closing laps did not go unrewarded. The 2008 World Champion pushed himself into the points and earned the DHL Fastest Lap of the FORMULA 1 GRAN PREMIO D'ITALIA 2013.
“He was the man on a charge to actually improve his position so the team allowed him to keep on pushing it at the very end of the race – and this is why he set fastest lap,” said DHL’s Formula 1 Expert and former F1 driver, Christian Danner, after the race. And he did it in style –he was a lot faster than the second fastest lap of the race.”
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