LEWIS HAMILTON has it all to do if he is to win the F1 World Championship this season as he trails Max Verstappen by 12 points going into the Mexican Grand Prix. Red Bull stunned Mercedes by undercutting them with a perfectly executed early pit stop as Verstappen took a surprise chequered flag ahead of Hamilton in the United States. Horner said before the race in Austin that he expected the altitude of Mexico City and Interlagos to play into Red Bull’s hands. Verstappen took Lewis out, because he was about to overtake and he was quicker. “I don’t think you can control it, I don’t think you want to control it because they are the gladiators in their machines.

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