Max Verstappen cruised to victory at the Mexico Grand Prix on Sunday leaving defending champion Lewis Hamilton to admit the Red Bull car “i...
Max Verstappen cruised to victory at the Mexico Grand Prix on Sunday leaving defending champion Lewis Hamilton to admit the Red Bull car “is far superior”.
Hamilton clung on to finish second in his Mercedes holding off a late charge from Red Bull’s Mexican driver Sergio Perez.
“Their car is far superior this weekend and there was nothing we could really do about it,” said Hamilton.
Verstappen, who grabbed the lead on the first corner, finished 16.555sec ahead of Hamilton with Perez just over a second further back. The Dutchman increased his lead in the world championship to 19 points from Hamilton with four races left.
“There’s still a long way to go,” Verstappen said. “It’s of course looking good but also it can turn around very quickly.”
Frenchman Pierre Gasly was fourth in an AlphaTauri followed by the Ferraris of Monegasque Charles LeClerc and Spaniard Carlos Sainz.
Hamilton had expressed his surprise on Saturday after Mercedes secured a front-row lockout, with teammate Valtteri Bottas on pole. The advantage did not survive the first corner, where almost all of the drama of the race happened in a few chaotic seconds.
Bottas and Hamilton started fast but as they headed into the turn side by side, Verstappen charged round the outside of the Finn....
