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Hamilton over the moon with podium: "Definitely wasn't expecting that"
- Toby McLuskie
Lewis Hamilton will stand on the podium for the second race in a row, after finishing third in the Austrian Grand Prix, much to his surprise. The Brit drove a strong race and finished ahead of his teammate George Russell in fourth, claiming 27 points for Mercedes.
"Definitely wasn't expecting that, yesterday was a difficult day and we have had a bit of a rough weekend," Hamilton told David Coulthard after the race, "thank you so much and what an incredible crowd we have had here this weekend."
Major praise for Mercedes
The Brit crashed on Friday in qualifying, which left the engineers with a major task ahead of them and Hamilton can't be more thankful for the work they put in to get his car ready for the Sprint yesterday and race today, stating: "Firstly, I do want to say a really big thank you to the men and women in the garage who worked so hard to rebuild the car. I had a brand new car on Saturday morning and unfortunately, it is something I don't do too often."
He finished by saying, "as a team we got 3rd and 4th which is great points and we move forward from here. We made some improvements this weekend so we just have to keep chipping away at it."