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Sunday, 26 June 2011 @ 14:57

Lewis Concedes 2011 Title Over

Sebastian Vettel’s lead of 77 points is equivalent to more than three race wins and Hamilton said his ambitions no longer extended to catching the German but simply on points in the constructors’ championship.

“I just want to continue finishing races because Sebastian is pretty much gone,” Hamilton said. “He has pretty much won it [the championship] really. Unless he doesn’t finish the next 10 races, which is very, very unlikely, he is gone. He has almost 100 points on me.

“That is four wins that I need to catch up without him finishing in any of those races. It is not impossible, but [realistically] now it is about working with the guys to score as many team points as possible in the constructors’ championship.

“We can’t beat the Red Bull right now. There was over a second per lap difference today. That is just ridiculous. We’re not giving up. I’m just being realistic. There are almost 100 points between me and Sebastian. And they finished 50 seconds or something ahead of us today.’’

Hamilton added that McLaren’s performance had fallen away since Barcelona, claiming that the engineers had ignored him and elected not to take a risk which could have handed them a significant chunk of lap time.

“They [McLaren] didn’t want to take the risk,” he said. Asked why not, Hamilton added: “For safety reasons. The question is whether or not we would have finished if we had taken the risk, but then that is what risk is all about. We had another couple of tenths available to us which I think would have been quite strong and it would have helped look after our tyres.

“We are not very good at cooling our rear tyres. We could have had more blowing just for one race but they didn’t want to do that. I pushed as hard as I could.”

Button, whose run to sixth was also marred by his KERS breaking, agreed with Hamilton’s assessment and also called on the team to be more bold. “I do know of some new parts that are coming but I think we need more. We need to take some risks because behind us is a big gap — in this race anyway – to the Mercedes, the Ferraris are in front of us and the Red Bulls are miles away.”

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