Only two drivers have won the Mexican Grand Prix in the past six years and appropriately they are Formula One’s central protagonists, Max Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton. The former is on a roll having already claimed the world championship this season and is set on closing it out with clinical control. However for Hamilton and his Mercedes team, Sunday’s race at the Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez offers late-season redemption in the hope of taking the fight to the Dutchman and perhaps a real fillip as they look to 2024.
At the last round in the US Hamilton was as close to Verstappen as he has been all season, just two seconds behind at the flag. He believes he could have challenged for the win but for Mercedes making the wrong strategy call. A decision which was ultimately moot when he was disqualified for a technical infringement in over-wearing the plank beneath the car.
