Toto Wolff felt Lewis Hamilton’s Mexican Grand Prix victory was an unexpected win, particularly with how the Mercedes AMG Motorsport team has traditionally struggled at the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez. Conditions in Mexico City haven’t always suited Mercedes, and starting from third and sixth on the grid, it appeared that 2019 would also show up their weaknesses, but Hamilton’s eighth victory of the season and Valtteri Bottas’ run to third showed the team had made progress with their W10 car and engine package. Wolff, the Head of Mercedes-Benz Motorsport, said the strategy call to pit Hamilton when they did was a risky one but one worth taking, and it proved to be the masterstroke...
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