Brazil F1 Grand Prix: Lewis Hamilton revives old memories with win for the ages

Damon Hill, Britain’s 1996 world champion and former rival of Michael Schumacher, said on Twitter that Lewis Hamilton’s performance was “one of the best drives I`ve ever seen in F1. By anyone. Utterly awesome.”

The most challenging of weekends turned into one of the best for Lewis Hamilton on Sunday with a victory in Brazil that brought back memories of another epic win as a junior fighting for his future. The seven-times world champion went from 20th and the back of the field in a Saturday sprint to 10th on the grid for the Sao Paulo Grand Prix at Interlagos and then to the top of the podium.

Hamilton said his father had reminded him of how in a Formula Three weekend in Bahrain in 2004 he went from 22nd in qualifying to 11th in the sprint to decide the grid and then won the main race.

“After that showing McLaren re-signed me,” he said. “I was fighting for my career at the time. Without them I wouldn’t have been able to make it to Formula One.”