Lewis Hamilton has been racing through a foot injury all season

Lewis Hamilton revealed to the press on Thursday that he’s been carrying his foot injury all season.

Following the Japanese Grand Prix, Mercedes took part in a tire test at the Circuit de Catalunya in Spain. However, Lewis Hamilton sat out the event due to a sore foot.

On Thursday, Hamilton revealed that the sore foot was as a result of an injury that he sustained ahead of this season due to running.

“I am 100 percent, yeah, feeling great,” Hamilton answered, when asked if he was feeling fit for this weekend.

“I basically had an injury that I’ve been carrying generally all year long, in both feet. Just induced by running.

“Unfortunately, the physio said that it just takes a lot of stretching and it just heals over a long time. At the time I woke up in the morning [of the Barcelona test], I was feeling quite a lot of pain the day before, and it hadn’t diminished.

“The most important thing was to be fresh for here and feeling better for here. This is actually the first week that it’s felt good.”

Hamilton sits 33 points of his teammate Nico Rosberg heading to Circuit of The Americas, a track in which he has won three out of the four races on.