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How Hamilton's critical changes decided a Turkish GP "that wasn’t his race to win"

After a grand prix that kept everybody guessing, Lewis Hamilton emerged triumphant as a seven-time world champion. The result had looked highly unlikely in the early stages, but experience and intuition meant an unlikely strategy worked in his favour

Alex Kalinauckas Nov 16, 2020, 3:56 PM

"If we're honest, it wasn't his race to win and he still won it. Once again he managed to pull out something special out of that bag."

From one world champion, to another. Back in 2018, Sebastian Vettel and Lewis Hamilton had duked it out for the crown and the honour of becoming Formula 1's third five-time world champion. Now, following his victory in last weekend's Turkish Grand Prix, Hamilton is three clear of his long-time rival, level with Michael Schumacher as the championship's two seven-time title winners.

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Author Alex Kalinauckas

Alex Kalinauckas is Autosport's Grand Prix Editor, covering every Formula 1 race since the start of 2020. After completing a master's degree in journalism at Goldsmiths College University of London in 2014, he worked for a range of motorsport and technology publications while covering national racing as an Autosport freelancer.

A lifelong motorsport fan - no one in his family can explain quite how or why such a development first occurred - Alex joined the Autosport staff in April 2017 as the magazine’s Assistant Editor covering Formula 2 and GP3, before being made Formula E correspondent and Autosport.com’s Plus Editor in March 2018. He lives in north-east London and is constantly frustrated by the Central Line.