Hamilton Overcomes All Obstacles To Win At Silverstone

The thing that was really interesting in Lewis Hamilton's victory in Silverstone today was not just the obstacles of a wet and windy race and cars spinning out all over the place and his bad grid position of fourth. He spoke afterwards of his overwhelming recent visit with Nelson Mandela, which he described as: "The most overwhelming experience and it took a lot out of me just to understand what was going on." Or the surprising doubts that he expressed about racing in a wet race to his brother, Nicholas. "Just before the race I spoke to my brother and I said I just hope I can keep it on the track, and he said you’re the master on the wet, don’t worry about that," said Hamilton. It gave him confidence, and he drove one of the great wet races of recent memory, grabbing the lead on Lap 5 and holding onto it while all other cars spun out around him. Maurice Hamilton put it well on BBC radio just after the race when he said, "I think you can sum it up by looking at the lap chart, the cars are jumping all over the place. The only thing that doesn’t change is the leader. He took the lead in Lap 5 and held it. Everything handled absolutely perfectly."