Mercedes is unsure a medium-to-soft tyre strategy would have been enough to fight Verstappen for victory in the MexicoGP 'That the medium held on for so long at the end came as a surprise.'
Hamilton kept within two seconds of Verstappen through the opening stint before taking the lead when the Red Bull pitted, stretching out his mediums to last 29 laps.
Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff said after the race it was"always easier to judge" with hindsight, but explained that the team's pre-race data suggested it had gone for the right strategy. Wolff said Mercedes could have decided to"lose more time on the medium and hang it out there for another five or six laps, and then try to do 30 laps on the soft" like Ricciardo did, but he felt it was"not a given that it would hold on" to the end of the race.
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