In The Driver’s Seat: Mercedes can be positive ahead of 2023 despite tyre strategy error

Lewis Hamilton taking his Mercedes round the Circuit of Hermanos Rodriguez, in Mexico City on Sunday. PHOTO: EPA-EFE
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Could Lewis Hamilton and Mercedes really have won the Mexico Grand Prix on Sunday?

The way that the multiple world champion had set the fastest times in the first two sessions of qualifying, only to lose pace with a deleted lap time and then engine glitches in the final one which set the front five rows, the auguries had seemed positive.

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