What did Hamilton, Verstappen, Sainz say in the cool down room?
Hamilton came third behind race winner Max Verstappen, his rival from 2021, and Carlos Sainz.
The trio chatted away after getting weighed…
Hamilton to Verstappen: “I couldn’t see you after a while. I was like: ‘where is he?’
“I lost some time to you.”
Sainz: “There is a bump there that I was scared of all weekend.”
Hamilton: “Sheesh.”
Verstappen to Sainz: “Was this the last lap?”
Sainz: “Second-to-last.
“The tyres get so warm.”
Verstappen to Sainz: “Yeah, well, you were constantly so close to me.”
Sky Sports' Ted Kravitz later said: "My suspicions were arisen that the cool down room is played back on a time delay so that they can mute the swearing. The cool down room suddenly ended then, live, I saw the drivers come onto the podium. I thought 'I know where the cool down room is because I took a podium here many moons ago!'
"If you were wondering why the sound goes down, it is because they mute the swearing via a time delay!"
Hamilton later said to Sky about his second podium of the season: "It is different to a win but it feels as good as that, in the sense that this is where I got my first win.
"I’ve had a fourth and a third. A bit of consistency, finally.
"I know I can do more."
