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 t෴o finish fourth at the F1 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.

On the whole though, 2024 has been a poor one by Ha♛milton’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.

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

He replied: “It's not tha🐭t I need to have confidence, 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 o🌱ff with a high today.”

“It took perfection” to beat Russell

Hamilton ca♎me alive on the mediumﷺ tyres, reducing Russell’s 14-second gap in the second stint of the race.

The seven-t💝ime 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 to catch the 14 second🎉s 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 pos♈sibly do, obviously in Vegas I was catching for 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.”

20🧸24 was officially Hamilton’s worst season in terms of championship position.

Before this year, he’s never fi♒nished outside the top five in the drivers’ standings.