Lewis Hamilton "entirely justified" in tense Dutch GP radio exchange, says Alex Brundle

Alex Brundle believes Lewis Hamilton was fully justified in venting his frustration over team radio during the Dutch Grand Prix. 

The seven-time champion narrowly missed out on a podium at Zandvoort, taking the chequered flag in fourth place behind race winner Lando Norris and the Mercedes pair of Kimi Antonelli and George Russell.

Hamilton was clearly frustrated throughout the race with various tense radio messages. While reviewing the race on F1 TV, Brundle defended Hamilton's outburst when the pitwall asked which tyre compound he wanted to change to. 

"That would upset me from inside the car as well because you're looking at the team asking you which tyre you want to be put on," Brundle explained. "They've already seen a stint on the medium compound from Charles Leclerc. They're sitting there with all of the data, and effectively you've got an engineer on the pitwall hedging their bets based around what the driver is going to say.

"Of course Lewis has sat in the briefings. Lewis has felt the tyres. He's the only person sitting in the car. But I think his response there actually came amid a slightly turbulent day where he did sound slightly upset over the radio in general.

Lewis Hamilton, Ferrari

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"I think his response to that particular one was entirely justified. He's got a sniff of a championship, hasn't he, Lewis Hamilton? And he knows that with the pace of the Mercedes as it's been so far this year, and with the pace of them at a circuit like Monza, like Baku coming up, just like with McLaren, everything's going to have to be right.

"He's going to have to stack the cards in his own favour if he is going to deliver an eighth. That's where that intensity in this race is coming from. He said at the beginning of this weekend, I spent most of my summer break training to be in the best position I can be in to attack this championship, and there he is with the frustrating outcome."

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