“There’s no time for celebrations”– Lewis Hamilton aims to shred Red Bull’s championship win hopes in Jeddah with his ‘triple A-game’

After getting two successive wins in Brazil and Qatar, Lewis Hamilton now wants to end Red Bull’s championship dream in Jeddah.

For the last seven years, Mercedes has remained the undisputed victors of the F1 championship. In 2021, Lewis Hamilton intends to increase the streak by another year.

Though his biggest challenge on Red Bull, their recent defeats in Brazil and Qatar have brought them backfoot. With the competition moving to Saudi Arabia, Hamilton is entirely focused on denying his rivals the ultimate glory.

“The last two weeks have been fantastic, just amazing,” Hamilton told Sky Sports. “[But] there’s no time for celebrations. I’ll be back with the team already again in the week and back in training, just staying on it, head down.”

“I don’t have too much emotion, except for [feeling] driven right now. But it’s incredible to be able to close back so many points in these last two races – it’s been necessary.”

“They’re [Red Bull] obviously still very fast, as you could see with their fastest lap and both their cars getting past pretty much everyone quite easily. So we’ve still got our work cut out.”

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Lewis Hamilton loving the fight

The reigning world champion is absolutely loving the pressure he is facing from Max Verstappen this year. It is probably for the first time in the turbo-hybrid era where Hamilton has been challenged so intensively by a non-Mercedes driver.

“I’m loving it. I love the close battle and the pressure and the demands it puts on you and the whole team. I’ve thoroughly enjoyed it. But these next two races are needing a better performance, so we’ll be bringing our triple A-game for those ones.”

Hamilton’s new engine has been a topic of concern for Red Bull ahead of the remaining races. But at the same time, they expect the pace of that engine to dwindle.

Also read: Mercedes say they have comfortably passed the new tests introduced by FIA at the Qatar GP amidst Red Bull’s suspicions

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Tanish Chachra

Tanish Chachra is the Motorsport editor at The SportsRush. He saw his first race when F1 visited India in 2011, and since then, his romance with the sport has been seasonal until he took up this role in 2020. Reigniting F1's coverage on this site, Tanish has fallen in love with the sport all over again. He loves Kimi Raikkonen and sees a future world champion in Oscar Piastri. Away from us, he loves to snuggle inside his books.

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