Hamilton lost out to Fernando Alonso and Kimi Raikkonen, but did at least just manage to hold off World Champion Sebastian Vettel, who ran a different strategy and was on the soft tires at the end.
“It was a good race for me, I’m quite happy with third,” said Hamilton. “Of course I would have liked to have won but congratulations to Fernando, he did a great job and so did Kimi. They were both a little bit too fast for us during the race.
“I was seemingly able to apply a little bit of pressure to Kimi but not enough to get close to him and overtake. My tires were shot at the end and there was nothing I could do really to hold off Sebastian. A little bit unlucky with some traffic. Still, to get on the podium, I’m really happy, and really happy with the points as well.”
Asked where Mercedes needed to improve, Hamilton said: “I’m not really sure where we’re losing out. Today, overall pace was just not there and there’s definitely a couple of areas that we can focus on on the car. We’ve got to bring some more updates and keep on improving but the team is working on that. But at least, after this I will go and analyze a little bit and try to figure out whereabouts we’re losing the time and see if we can zone in on that and try to improve there.”
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