168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lewis Hamilton has conceded his final year with Mercedes has been “really turbulent”, describing F1 2024 as the “longest year of my life”.

Hamilton bowed out of Mercedes with a spectacular drive from 16th on the grid to finish fourth at the F1 Abu Dhabi 🦄Grand Prix.

On the whole though,💛 2024 has been a poor one by Hamilton’s high standards.

Aside from his two F1 race victories, Hamilton has generally been out-performed by 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:George Russell, particularly on a Saturday.

Speaking after his final race with Mercedes, Hamilton was asked whether it was important for his confidence that he 𝓡ended the year on a high.

He replied: “It's not that I need to have confid꧅ence, I've always had the confidence, but definitely really nice to finish with a strong hard battle.

“No mistakes, solid drive. It's been a really turbulent year, probably the longest year of my life. I would say, because we've known it 🍌from the beginning that we're leaving, and it's like a relationship, when you've told whoever the counterpart is that you're leaving, but you're living together for a whole year.

“Lots of ups and downs, emotionally, but we finished off with👍 a high today.”

“It took perfection” to beat Russell

Hamilton came alive on the✱ medium tyres, reducing Russell’s 14-second gap in the second stint of th♔e race.

The sev🅘en-time world champion admitted it required “perfection” to beat his teammate in Abu Dhabi.

“He was driving great, obviously he started a lot further ahead than I did, so ܫto catch the 14 seconds was tough, but he was putting in good laps, and so it took perfection,” he added.

“I had to really put together the best laps I could possibly do, obviously in Vegas I was catching f𝕴or a period of time and then stopped, so I was trying to make sure that I kept taking chunks out of the gap, and I only caught him right at that last lap, and I was like it's now or never, and so I just waited for him.”

2024 was officially Hamilton’s worst season in terms of championship po🦩sition.

Before this year, he’s never finished outside the top five in the drivers’ 🐓standings.