The world champion had battled exhausting via the Hungaroring occasion to complete in third place, after a mistaken technique name firstly had initially dropped him to the again of the sphere.
Following a pink flag restart on a humid however drying observe, each different driver pitted on the finish of the formation lap to take slick tyres.
Hamilton elected to proceed on inters although and got here round alone as the one automobile to type up on the grid.
However with the tyres clearly being mistaken for the circumstances, he was pressured to pit on the finish of the primary lap and dropped to the again earlier than charging via the sphere to seize third place behind Esteban Ocon and Sebastian Vettel.
Regarded drained after his efforts, Hamilton later initially skipped the publish race TV interviews and media press convention whereas he sought some medical recommendation.
A Mercedes spokesman confirmed that Hamilton was affected by ‘fatigue and gentle dizziness.’
Mercedes workforce boss Toto Wolff stated there have been no wider considerations about Hamilton’s situation.
Lewis Hamilton, Mercedes W12, passes Carlos Sainz Jr., Ferrari SF21
Photograph by: Charles Coates / Motorsport Images
“I have not spoken to him but and the physician is with him,” stated Wolff. “I feel you’ll be able to simply relate to it with the warmth on the market and a race like he had with tonnes of overtaking. That’s exhausting. I feel he needs to be alright, however higher to be protected than sorry.”
Talking within the preliminary post-race F1 interview, Hamilton stated he had left nothing on the desk in his bid to push up the order.
“Right now was positively powerful,” he stated. “We all the time make it troublesome for ourselves. And loopy to assume we had been the one ones within the grid firstly.
“However this stuff occur and we study from them. I gave it all the pieces and I had nothing left to the top.”
Whereas Hamilton missed out on the win, his third spot, allied to title rival Max Verstappen’s tenth place completed, was sufficient for him to maneuver again to the lead of the F1 championship standings.
“We got here into this weekend and positively did not know the way it’s gonna go,” he stated. “So contemplating the circumstances immediately. I am going to take it.”