Lewis said he used up ALL his KERS on the straight before he overtook Webber. here is the evidence guys, what excuse you do have for LH now?
Q: Obviously the start was important today, tell us about that.
LH: It was very close. I generally didn’t really get a fantastic start initially, being on the dirty side, which is normal. Kimi seemed to get an incredible start and was up alongside me and I seemed to level off with him once I was on the KERS - we were both on KERS, I think. I don’t think he saw me but he was behind Mark and he moved to the right to go past him and we nearly touched. I went to the right and fortunately Sebastian gave me enough space, so no collision there. (I went) a little bit wide at turn one but back on KERS - you know KERS is working very well and just the whole package was fantastic but for once I was able to really use KERS to my advantage today, so that was good.
Q: Does it work better on a twisty circuit like this?
LH: No, not really, you’re always traction-limited and so it’s better with lots of long straights. I think here you could always see that my sector one has been the strongest all weekend but that’s largely due to KERS really, on the main straight. And with this kind of start there’s such a long stretch down to turn one, a bit like in Germany, it gives us a great opportunity to take a few places.
Q: (Tony Dodgins) Lewis, key moment when you passed Mark in the first stint. We’re not used to seeing people go round the outside there, was that the KERS button?
LH: I’d actually used all my KERS down the straight because actually I thought that I’d be able to get him in turn one but he blocked, so I went to the outside. I think I may have used a little bit at the beginning but I ran out. Mark was in my blind spot eventually, so I couldn’t really see him, so I gave him plenty of room and eventually I saw him fade into the back. It was quite a straightforward move but clearly Mark was very smart, he’s got to score points and there’s no real point in him to taking silly risks. As for me, I needed to get past him. I was absolutely surprised to see that I was even able to keep up with him but I was able to go past him and still pull away whilst looking after my tyres, so it was good.
I'll give him the doubt though. He drove a fantastic race, never faltered, and show he is an awesome racer. My hat is always off to Lewis when he wins, Lord knows he'd kick my ass any day of the week.
