adminLewis Hamilton admits it will be “very tough” to beat Sebastian Vettel to the world drivers’ title but insists he is “going to keep pushing”.
The Mercedes driver is 58 points behind Vettel with a maximum of 200 available after the Red Bull driver’s dominant victory in Sunday’s Belgian Grand Prix.
“It’s a big, big gap. It’s a huge gap,” said Hamilton, who finished third at Spa behind Ferrari’s Fernando Alonso.
Hamilton admitted it was “difficult” to see Vettel in such a strong position.
The Englishman started from pole position but was passed by the German on the first lap, before being demoted by Alonso 14 laps later on.
Hamilton’s Mercedes did not have the pace to keep up with his two rivals.
“There’s nothing you can do,” Hamilton said. “It’s difficult when people pull away from you and there is nothing you can do about it.
“I feel happy we’ve extended our lead [in the constructors’ championship] ahead of Ferrari, and also I’m up to third [in the drivers’ ahead of Lotus’s Kimi Raikkonen], so I have come and done what I planned to do.
“But it is difficult when he is pulling away at the rate sometimes he pulls away.”
Vettel is 46 points ahead of Alonso, who is second in the championship, and is well on course for his fourth consecutive world title, a feat only Juan Manuel Fangio and Michael Schumacher have previously managed.-BBC.
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