Hamilton calls Brazil win ‘all-time great race’

Lewis Hamilton holds the trophy after winning in Sao Paulo. Pic/AFP

If Lewis Hamilton clinches a record eighth world title it will be in no small part due to Sunday's against-all-odds Brazil win he ranked as "the best weekend I have experienced in probably my whole career."

On Friday night that looked a fanciful idea, when he was hit with disqualification from pole in Saturday's sprint after the stewards had detected a minor infringement on his car. Setting off 20th he produced a vintage overtaking masterclass to take fifth, which dropped to 10th in the grand prix grid after a penalty for an engine change. With championship leader Max Verstappen on the front row alongside Hamilton's teammate Valtteri Bottas on pole, a win looked improbable.

"Coming here 19 points behind, only one point ahead in the teams championship, we really needed a solid, solid result, but then obviously we had all these penalties," he said.

"Mentally you can just think it's over, it's impossible, but then nothing is if you put your mind to it. That's really why we just cultivated a positive mental attitude and went in fighting, guns blazing," he added after climbing the podium draped in a Brazilian flag.

Enjoying faster speed on the straights courtesy of his new engine, Hamilton, 36, picked off the cars in front of him one by one - only Bottas under orders to swop places proved light work for all the knowledge the seven-time world champion has accumulated.

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