In the round-up: Lewis Hamilton admits he has had to learn to adapt his driving style more in recent years
In brief
Hamilton learning to adapt driving style
Lewis Hamilton admits he has had to learn to adapt his driving style to his car in recent seasons as Mercedes have fought to become more competitive.
“I just keep trying to drive the way I want to drive and then realise it doesn’t always work,” he said. “Then I’m trying to, kind of, massage my way through. But it’s not worked that well still to this point.
“I think ultimately, as a driver, you have to be adaptive and you can see that sometimes your approaches to certain things aren’t perfect. You just start looking at ways in which you can still hold on to the essence of what made you as good as you have been, and see how you can evolve that to get to achieve what you need to achieve.
“Ultimately as drivers, you should be able to drive anything – and I think we can. It’s just in certain situations, some drivers are able to deal with things better than others. It takes some people a short time and others longer to adapt.”
Fairclough scores eighth British F4 win at Knockhill
Deagen Fairclough extended his championship lead in British F4 by taking his eighth victory in 19 races in the opening race of three of the weekend at Knockhill.
The Hitech driver passed Rowan Campbell-Pilling late to win by just over half a second, but Campbell-Pilling dropped from second to eighth in the final classifications after a ten-second time penalty for jumping the start.
Alex Ninovic took second with Martin Molnar completing the podium. Alpine junior driver and F1 Academy championship leader Abbi Pulling finished in sixth.
Le Mans Ultimate coming to consoles
Motorsport Games, the publisher of the officially licensed World Endurance Championship simracing title Le Mans Ultimate, says it will “accelerate” development of the game to consoles.
In an investor call to report their Q2 financial results – which included income from settling agreements with IndyCar and the British Touring Car Championship after abandoning game projects for both licences – CEO Stephen Hood said the company were looking to bring Le Mans Ultimate onto consoles.
“Our business now boasts a promising product and development team with a significantly reduced operating expense base and detachment from historical challenges that we now believe presents an attractive opportunity to investors and potential acquirers,” said Hood.
“Given the strong customer reception to our ongoing development of the Le Mans Ultimate game, we have decided to accelerate efforts to bring this to title to games consoles and reach a larger audience.”
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Bottas on the day he turned anger into ‘perfection’ with a drive that still gives him goosebumps (F1)
”As a driver, as an athlete, you’re always searching for this flow state, you feel like you’re in full control. Everything almost slows down, it almost feels like everything is easy, you have time to react, you have time to think, and the whole race was like that. I would say sometimes you might get that perfect feeling in qualifying, sometimes in the whole race, but unfortunately, I would say it’s probably less than 20% of your qualifyings or races that you get to your absolute peak in terms of your mental performance. It was an amazing feeling and I still get goosebumps. I just really felt like that was my highlight so far, in terms of my own performance.”
Get to know Sasha Bondarev (Williams)
Williams junior driver Sasha Bondarev discusses his background in racing, including surviving a horrifying karting accident.
Racer Billy Monger says Lewis Hamilton told me what it takes to be a champion (Mirror)
”We still keep in touch. He was my idol growing up. So just to spend time so close to people like that, yeah, is hugely inspiring for me. He is the best of all time. He has given me a few tips around how he prepares. I can’t give away his secrets now, can I? But I can tell you he writes a lot of notes after every single time he drives. He makes sure he writes (what happened) down diligently after every session. So, if he turns up at a track five years later and it’s similar conditions, he’s got the notes ready there to reflect on. They’re the details that make you a champion.”
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