Lewis Hamilton won the Mexican Grand Prix for Mercedes after a first-lap scare o...
MEXICO CITY - Lewis Hamilton won the Mexican Grand Prix for Mercedes after a first-lap scare on Sunday but the Briton will have to wait another week to wrap up his sixth Formula One world championship.
The victory stretched his lead over third placed Finnish team mate Valtteri Bottas to 74 points — making the title a mere formality that will surely be secured in Texas next weekend. Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel was a close second with team mate Charles Leclerc, who started from pole position and set the fastest lap but was undone by a two-stop strategy and a problem pitstop, fourth.
Bottas, who crashed heavily in qualifying and started sixth after a lengthy car rebuild, said he could not have done much more on a slow-burning afternoon that was all about tyre management.Mercedes have already secured the constructors’ title for the sixth year in a row, and are also sure of an unprecedented sixth successive championship double.
As Leclerc led Vettel away, Red Bull’s British-born Thai rookie Alexander Albon made the most of the mayhem to catapult himself into third place.
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