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Lewis Hamilton Tightens Grip on 6 Drivers Championship

At the Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez Lewis Hamilton took his tenth win of the season in Mexico to move closer to his sixth title. He and his team proved they can win even when they don’t have the quickest package, a rare situation during the past five years.

Lewis won thanks to the choice of a single pit stop and the realisation that track position is paramount. Those factors, combined with Lewis’ innate ability to manage the tyres, sealed a superbly executed win.

Over the last dozen laps, when he was running on significantly older tyres than Sebastian Vettel, Lewis never really gave the German any hope that an attack was possible.

Hamilton responded sector by sector, lap after lap, to any attempt to close on him. In some ways, this race reflected the season as a whole: this year is the first in the hybrid era in which Mercedes’ technical superiority has been challenged, but at the same time the driver and team have found a way of getting the best out of their package, making the most of any unexpected circumstances and the mistakes of others. Record beating runs are built like this.

“Today was a surprise, we've really struggled here for quite some time and we came into this weekend expecting it to be very difficult. We really thought we would be on the back foot, but we kept our heads down, we kept working hard and it all came together in the end. I had a crazy first couple of corners today, I was pushed on the grass at the start and then Max hit me. It was not easy to recover from that afterwards - I had a massive chunk of my floor missing, so the rear end was moving a lot and I had to really change the dynamic of how I was driving. I don't know how I managed to keep it going, but I did. The guys also did a fantastic job with the strategy - we stopped pretty early, and honestly I thought it might have been too early, but it all worked out in the end. I really wanted to deliver for the fans today; they were all out there during the drivers' parade supporting me, so I really wanted to give them a good performance and I'm so grateful we won,” said Hamilton.