Hamilton gets praise: "It speaks of the quality of Hamilton's drive"

Lewis Hamilton is now looking at a 19 point deficit to Max Verstappen in the World Championship. After the first corner in Mexico, the Dutchman drove off into the distance and there was nothing the Brit could do to attack. But in Peter Windsor's analysis, Hamilton picks up praise for the damage limitation by securing second place. 

In almost a carbon copy of Hamilton's charge on Verstappen in the United States Grand Prix two weeks earlier, home favourite Perez attacked Hamilton in the final stages of the race. In the last couple of laps, the Mexican reached DRS zone and even tried a mini lunge up the inside but the overtake never happened. Windsor praises Hamilton for holding on.

Praise for Hamilton

"Perez was able to get 11 laps on Lewis, that was 11 laps he was going to have on newer hard tyres towards the end of the race. It speaks of the quality of Lewis Hamilton's drive in what was a pretty difficult car on the day. Nothing like as good as the Red Bull Honda on either the medium or the hard as it turned out. It was a pretty good drive by Lewis to defend and keep second place. Astonishing actually to my mind that Perez didn't get P2 in a very very good car with tyres 11 laps newer," Windsor said in the latest video on his youtube channel.

"But Lewis as he does, paced it beautifully, used the traffic well and got the DRS from the slower cars. He was held up by Lando in the sense he couldn't get passed. Lando was there having done the longest stint on the medium tyres was now going quickly on the hard tyres. There was no way Hamilton could get three car lenths behind Norris without losing downforce. That allowed Sergio to close up with 10 laps to go."

Once Hamilton cleared Norris, Windsor sees a classic Hamilton stint. "In the end, Norris moved over and we saw real gritty Lewis Hamilton putting the head down, no errors what so ever and driving beautifully. I can't believe he finished second and it wasn't a Red Bull one-two because that's how good the cars were," Windsor concludes about the seven-time World Champion.