Lewis Hamilton says he was expecting to retire during the Canadian Grand Prix after a cooling issue led to a loss of power during the opening stages of the race. Luckily for Hamilton, the team were able to fix the issue at his pitstop and he went on to finish fifth.
"Straight from the start, we got out of Turn 2, the power started dropping out," he said.
"There were lots of hesitations, engine dropping in power, so I thought the engine was going to blow.
"We don't have a problem with cooling, we just had something fail that sent temperatures up.
"It was an unforeseen issue and that was losing us power. We were operating far below our power target.
"The whole race, 70 laps, I thought the engine was going to blow up. It's gone a long way (on mileage this season).
"I was conflicted at the end because I wanted to push to get that next position but if the engine goes in the last couple of laps… the second to last lap I had some big dips in power.
"It was like, 'please, just one more lap to go'."
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