Wednesday, 23rd July 2008

Despite admitting that there were factors that it could not have predicted, McLaren insists that it is happy with the strategy call it made for Lewis Hamilton in Sunday's German Grand Prix at Hockenheim.

"I'm totally with the decision they made. For sure, we could have perhaps done a better job but, nevertheless, we were quickest and it just made my job a little bit harder. But I just told Ron [Dennis] ‘that's what you hire me to do. This is what I'm here for'.

"I was told that I needed a 23secs lead [to rejoin in first place], so I kind of knew that it was impossible in the short period of time that I had unless I was three seconds a lap faster or something. I just did the best job I could - I nailed it, I really got on, I was pushing even more than I was in the first stint. I was just trying to make that gap. I had a nice clean space, no-one to cause me any troubles and we weren't able to do it, we just missed it, but the great thing was that the team was still very positive. They came across on the radio and said ‘don't worry, we can still do it'."

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