Lewis Hamilton feeling the pressure in 2012

Although Lewis Hamilton took victory at the Canadian Grand Prix, which in turn meant the Briton could leave Montreal leading the Drivers’ Championship, the 2008 World Champion has explained how he is feeling enormous amounts of pressure to produce good results this season.

With this unique season ever changing, Lewis Hamilton has stated how consistency is a better aim, rather than individual strong results. The McLaren driver has so far successfully finished every race this season in the points, which is his best start to a Formula 1 season since his debut back in 2007.

“My win in Montreal was obviously an extremely satisfying moment for me – but, actually, it does very little to alter things in the World Championship.” Explained Lewis Hamilton, “We may have won in Canada, but there’s an enormous amount of pressure to keep racking up good results at every Grand Prix. I think that consistency, rather than individual strong results, will be the key to winning this World Championship, so we need to back it up in Valencia with another strong result.”

After seven different winners in the first seven races of the season, many are predicting another different winner this weekend in Valencia. Even former World Champion Lewis Hamilton is struggling to make a firm prediction ahead of this weekends race, however his only aim is to score another strong and consistent result.

“People are always asking me to predict what will happen at the next race and I always tell them it’s really difficult to make an accurate prediction.” Continued Hamilton, “But I’ll be heading to Valencia feeling super-motivated to get another strong result and maintain my momentum before we head into Silverstone and the Santander British Grand Prix.”

Lewis Hamilton has never won at the European Grand Prix, whereas McLaren have never won around the Valencia Street Circuit altogether. Both Lewis Hamilton and his team-mate Jenson Button will be striving to take victory this weekend, however Hamilton seems quite content on consistency this season, and it seems to be paying off!

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