Mercedes took a gamble in the Mexican GP by leaving Lewis Hamilton out on his flat-spotted first set of tyres, ignoring data that suggested a vibration was potentially strong enough to cause a suspension failure. The team would normally have brought straight him in for a new set of tyres, as happened with Nico Rosberg in Sochi two years ago after he locked up on the first lap. However, given the world championship situation it was decided to leave Hamilton out and monitor the vibration. The final call was taken by Paddy Lowe, who was at McLaren when Kimi Raikkonen suffered a dramatic failure on worn tyres at the 2005 European GP, after consultation with Toto Wolff and others. "That...
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