Lewis Hamilton has explained the story behind his radio message during the Bahrain Grand Prix after the Mercedes star told race engineer Pete Bonnington: “My seat is broken!” The legendary Brit climbed from ninth on the grid to finish in P7 in an underwhelming start to the 2024 campaign.
Hamilton was making steady progress through the field during the opening stage of the race and had already made his way past Fernando Alonso, but the 39-year-old was forced to report a bizarre issue, complaining of a ‘broken seat’ in a radio message sent on lap 25.
Explaining the backstory behind the incident to DAZN after the race, Hamilton said: “Yeah, honestly I think I was braking into turn one and then the seat just shifted, and my left butt cheek fell, basically. I think it just cracked, just snapped, something snapped, so then it was moving around for a while. Like my butt was in the air. On one side it was up in the air.”
