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In the round-up: Lewis Hamilton says being out of contention for victories for most of the last two years helped him become a better team mate.

In brief

Hamilton a better team member because of Mercedes’ struggles

After scoring his first victory for two-and-a-half years at Silverstone, Hamilton said going for so long without winning had been “mostly a battle of the mind.”

“Keeping yourself sane, trying to pick up new tools,” he told Esquire. “Ultimately, it always comes back to persistence and dedication. Hard work. It always does eventually pay off. I think I learned that life is really about how much pain you can experience and keep going, and how much you can suffer and keep moving forward, you know?”

Hamilton said the challenges Mercedes faced taught them how to communicate better. “It’s not how you fall; it’s how you get up,” he said. “It’s how you continue to apply yourself every single day.

“It’s how you connect with people that you work with. I probably learned to be a better team mate in this period of time, because we’ve had more time to focus on communication.”

Piastri says he’s “healed”

Oscar Piastri confirmed the rib he injured before the summer break has healed. The McLaren driver revealed he sustained the injury before scoring his first victory in the Hungarian Grand Prix. However in a social media post Piastri said he was “sunned and healed” and “ready for some more race cars.”

Newgarden defends restart tactics

Josef Newgarden insisted he complied with IndyCar’s rules during a late-race restart which led to a collision between his team mate Will Power, Alexander Rossi and other drivers.

“The procedure for race control is they’re watching your throttle,” he explained. “When you commit to going, that’s when they throw the green or they initiate the green.

“There is a zone. They put a zone out every race. I was trying to go at the end of the zone, as late as you possibly could. It looked like there was just a mistime there.

“It’s also possible, it looks like only one car really kind of ran into one other pretty aggressively, at least from what I saw. Maybe I’m wrong. It’s also possible that was just totally fine. If that one car didn’t have that problem, then we would have been all right.”

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