Avoiding creating an angry Toto Wolff for the Mercedes debrief was probably a wise move from George Russell... MexicoGP F1
as Mercedes were left ruing the choice to switch Hamilton and Russell onto the hard tyre for their final stint.
“But as soon as we went to probably the second lap, we realised that thing was not working. It would have been really intrigued to see what we could have done had we extended the medium and gone on to the soft, kind of like what Daniel did, had a really strong race. But hindsight is a wonderful thing.”
“At the end, I was pushing as hard as I could, but it was like driving on ice out there. I think probably Pirelli brought one step too hard compound here. So you have a soft probably should have been the medium, the medium should have been the hard and we were kind of like on ultra-hards on the hard tyre.”