Webber: Victory is very important for Hamilton

Former Formula 1 driver Mark Webber believes the long-awaited victory is of great importance for Lewis Hamilton…

Mark Webber: “At Silverstone Lewis turned on the ‘beast mode’ that he is at home in. I think it happened at the end of the first segment: everyone was talking about the coming rain and he smelled blood. Like a shark in the ocean.

Hamilton thought: “I have the opportunity and the experience. I will put pressure on everyone.” He focused this race on himself, made important decisions and led the team. “This is what I want. This is what I want and what I will do. So don’t worry,” he made clear.

I’m a big Lewis fan. I know I said he was on the fringes and wondered where he got his motivation from. But if you give him a flash, like we saw at Silverstone, it will help him a lot.

For someone at his level, this victory is certainly very important. And for someone like him, when you have more than a hundred winning trophies in your cabinet, but you are still paranoid about perfection in everything. He asks himself, like Rafael Nadal, constantly: “Can I still do this?”

“Hamilton has set the bar so high that when he rises to that level you have to be careful. This is one of the key moments of his life. This may be his last win, but at Silverstone he has been fighting from the moment the lights went out and he has come through.”