Lando on mentality, Singapore 2025, Brocedes, Hungary 2024, and Oscar (4m 49s) | Beyond the Grid
You would sacrifice a friendship to win?
No, I get where they're [Lewis and Nico] coming from. I don't know if, like, I— same for them, I'm sure they didn't want their friendship to end or to kind of go the way that it did. I certainly wouldn't want to. But I very much understand how it's possible. Like, I'm lucky I've had a teammate that's, I think, shares very similar values, and therefore you don't go in that direction. But it's so, so easy to end up in the way that they have done, if you're two teammates are fighting for a World Championship. It takes so little for you to go in that direction as teammates. Like, it takes— it's easy to do.
Give us an example. What, holding back a bit of information in a debrief, is that what we're talking about? Or is it...
Yeah, I mean it can be a collection of things. Depends how strong you are as a teammate. It can be hiding things, just lying. You know, lying, not being, uh, yeah, upholding to things you might have said before the races. It can easily go back to, you know, Budapest a couple of years ago. I led the race and there's so many people like, "Ah, I wouldn't have let him back past," and all of those things, you know? So easy for me to just keep pounding round and win the race. Some people might have loved that, but I genuinely probably wouldn't have been able to live with that for the rest of my life.
And do you think that would have really affected your relationship with Oscar if you had done that?
100%. The team wouldn't be the same as they are now. Probably wouldn't have won Constructors for the last two years, which probably means we wouldn't have won the Drivers' Championship, I wouldn't have won the Drivers' Championship last year.
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