Lewis Hamilton insisted that he never felt under pressure after enjoying a comfortable victory in the Canadian Grand Prix.
The 30-year-old's triumph at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve saw him move 17 points clear of Mercedes teammate Nico Rosberg in the drivers' championship.
Rosberg kept Hamilton within his sights for much of the race, narrowing the gap to just one second mid-way through the race as the Englishman was told to save fuel by lifting and coasting.
But after the race, Hamilton insisted that he never felt under too much pressure, finishing 2.2 seconds ahead of Rosberg as the Silver Arrows completed another one-two finish.
"I didn't feel I had the most comfortable balance - I generally had a lot of understeer," said Hamilton, who made amends for his disappointment in Monaco a fortnight ago. "But I never really felt too much under pressure.
"Nico was quick, but I felt I pretty much had it all under control and had a bit of time in my pocket to pull it out when I needed to. So it was never too serious.
"But it was a great race, I don't know what it was like to watch. It felt like it was intense and I really enjoyed it."
Hamilton admitted he was frustrated that he was forced to save fuel, whilst Ferrari's Fernando Alonso announced his discontent at being told to adopt similar tactics over the team radio, but told Sky Sports F1 that his W06 was never at a threateningly-low level.
"It never got critical at all," said the reigning world champion. "I think there were two different approaches: they suggested that I pushed, got the gap and later on did my fuel saving.
"The problem with that is when the tyres are at their lowest in terms of rubber, they lose temperature and the brakes lose temperature and you lose too much pace.
"With about 25 laps to go, I was thinking 'I'll save all my fuel now, so I can push towards the end'.
"I did enough and that's when Nico got close. But I was able to fuel save while keeping out of DRS and after that I was able to eke out what I needed."
Asked why Rosberg was not asked to save fuel as he had, Hamilton insisted that Mercedes' decision to upgrade the car's engines had a part to play.
"We had new engines this weekend and definitely earlier on in the weekend, mine was guzzling more just through settings," he said.
"I was doing the same driving and actually more 'lift and coast' and yet I was using more fuel. I wouldn't be surprised if that was still the case today.
"Generally, if you're behind someone here, you've got the slipthe whole time, so automatically you use less fuel."
Hamilton's win comes after an error in strategy cost him what looked like a certain victory at Monaco, but he insisted that whilst the race result was better in Montreal, the pace of the car was a little less than he had expected.
"The last race was pretty amazing throughout the weekend," added Hamilton. "Whilst it was a disappointing result at the end, the whole weekend strengthened my team and it was a great weekend in terms of our pace.
"We came here and there was a little less pace in the race than I’d hoped for, but I’m just grateful I got both the pole and the win."
Mercedes-Benz's head of motorsport Toto Wolff insisted that the result in Canada was the perfect antidote for the team as a whole.
"There is so much if you have a weekend like Monaco to digest and come out of it and there was big drama in the team," he said. "Bono, Hamilton's race engineer lost his father a couple of days ago and we tried to keep that out of the public.
"It is important not to get dragged into a black hole because we still finished first and third in Monaco. But the team needed that result today."