lewis post-race interview with canal+ at the spanish gp '23

Hi Lewis. Hi. Bravo. Thank you. Would you say it was the perfect race? The perfect race for you? For Mercedes? Well, if we’d won it would’ve been perfect so, not far from it, but we had a fantastic weekend for us as a team. For us to get second here it's absolutely incredible. The team worked so hard to bring this upgrade this weekend. We didn’t feel like it was a huge - not this weekend last weekend - but we didn’t feel like it was a huge huge step and we managed to get the setup in the right window and catching the Ferraris, even the Astons today, was huge so I want to say a big thank you to the team back at the factory. We sill have a long way to go to catch the Red Bulls cause they were just moving up ahead. How much hope do you have for the future right now? Ah, this is just a massive boost for us, for everyone in the team. To get a result like this. Obviously, we had second in Australia. If the car is quick here it should be quick in most places so. And I heard that we are now second in the constructor championship so that’s mega, really. So we just keep on it and cracking.

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It's not coming as a surprise to anyone who was even remotely paying attention (he's been working at it since he got there) but Ben Sulayem is on his last effort to turn the FIA into his own personal dictatorship.