168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lewis Hamilton has been forced to settle for runner-up spot behind Red Bull’s 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen at consecutive races in Austin ♏and Mexico City as he missed the chance to end his an🤪d Mercedes’ winless drought in 2022. 

Hamilton was leading the United States Grand Prix on hard tyres but was overtaken in ꧙t꧅he closing stages by Verstappen, who was running on mediums.

At last weekend’s Mexico City Grand Prix, Mercedes again opt⭕ed for alternative tactics to Red Bull, putting Hamilton on a﷽ medium-to-hard strategy in the belief that race-leader Verstappen would not be able to go to the end on his set of mediums, having started the race on softs. 

Ferrari team principal Mattia Binott😼o, whose team’s strategy has come under scrutiny several times this season, thinks Mercedes threw away two potential victories. 

“In Hungary we have been criticised and 🐻it’s normally when we are doing things which are not completely right, we are critici🍌sed,” he said. 

"Mercedes maybe have lost the last race as well by not choosing the right tyres♐ in Austin. So I think it’s not only down to us somehow to make different choices or makingꦬ mistakes.”

Binotto said it was always clear to Ferrari that runni🎶ng a soft-to-medium strategy was the best way to go in Mexico. 

“We saw that there was not much degradation on the soft, or sufficient to run a one-stop s✃oft-medium, and we went for it,” he explained. 

“Certainly then in the race we had as well to manage our tyres to make sure that we’re surviving on a one-stop and that maybe as well is part of the cause of our slow pace༒ of today. 

“So managing tyres ﷽has been certainly a♐n item a subject for us today. But still we believe that soft-medium was the right choice for the race.”

Red𓂃 Bull team principal Christian Hor𓆉ner also took a swipe at rivals Mercedes, revealing his “surprise” at their tyre strategy.  

“I think🌌 we would have still had the edge, but they [Mercedes] would have been a lot closer,” Horner said. 

“You could hear their drivers were not very happy about the hard tyre and that's the second weekend in a 🔯rowꦚ that they’ve put that tyre on and it’s cost them a victory, so I was quite surprised at that.” 

Horওner also praised Verstappen’s tyreꩵ-management, describing it as “masterful”. 

“He controlled the race from the very beginning on those soft tyres, not warming them up too q𝄹uick♊ly, making sure there was longevity to them,” he added. 

“Actually, when they came off the car, there was still a lot of life left in them. That gave us even more ♔confidence that the medium tyre would be fine as a one-stop. 

“It was a questio𝐆n of not abusing that tyre, which is something he has been masterful at this year.”

Mercedes admit tactical error 

Both Hamilton and teammate 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:George Russell were unhappy with their ha🥀rd tyres and questioned Mercedes’ decision in Mexico. 

After Sunday's race, Toto W꧒olff admitted his team made a mistake in hindsight. 

“In hindsight, it’s always easier to judge,🀅” he said. “But I think that the one-stop, medium-hard looked like the right strategy.

“That 🌊the medium a🌃t the end held on for so long came as a surprise. But the hindsight is the thing. If we were to restart the race, maybe we would choose a different tyre.”

Wolff added: “We felt [the soft] was strong when we discussed it this morning, but not strong enough to really go 30 laps or so. Our models said that a soft-hard would go. Our models didn’t say that a soft-m💟edium would go.

“It could have been to lose more time on the medium and hang it out there for another five, six laps and then try to do 30 laps on the soft. But also that w🏅as not a given that it wo🍸uld hold on with Daniel you could see that it was possible.”

Wolff also conceded Mexico likely presented Mercede🌞s with their best chance of winning a race this season. 

“On the simulations, it says♒ yes,” he concluded.&💜nbsp;