🗣'I think the Red Bull was just clearly too fast today. Ultimately maybe they had the better tyre strategy.' While Lewis Hamilton didn't think he was on the correct tyre strategy, he conceded that Max Verstappen was too quick anyway. MexicoGP F1 ⬇️
Although it seemed that Mercedes was going to attempt to go long into the race on the mediums and switch to softs at the end, the team instead made the jump to hards with Hamilton before half-distance, with Russell following suit.
"I was so close I think in that first stint," Hamilton said of his initial stint on the medium tyres,"but I think the Red Bull was just clearly too fast today. Ultimately maybe they had the better tyre strategy. "It was OK in the first stint, but the hard tyre was just offset. Congratulations to Max, it’s great to be up here and separate the two."Hamilton had to be content with second, 15s off Verstappen by the end as the Red Bull pace showed little sign of dying down.