By India Today Web Desk: Red Bull’s Max Verstappen has broken the record for most wins in a season after winning the Mexican Grand Prix. With this victory, the Dutch racer recorded his 14th win of the season, surpassing legendary Michael Schumacher and Sebastian Vettel’s record of 13 wins in a season.
Speaking after winning the Mexican Grand Prix, Verstappen called his victory amazing, insisting that the tyre wear was better than what he’d hoped for.
“Yeah, it was an amazing race again. Probably a little bit better than expected with tyre wear. But yeah, once we stayed ahead into turn one, we could look after our tyres. Of course, on the soft (compound), it’s always a bit more critical in that first stint, but once we put the medium tyres on, it seemed very competitive,” said Verstappen.
Meanwhile, Lewis Hamilton, who finished second behind Vertsappen, said maybe their tyre strategy let them down in the Mexican Grand Prix.
“Naturally, we couldn’t keep up with these guys. Probably didn’t have the strategy maybe quite right today, but nonetheless, to be this close, to have to ‘2nds’ back to back, I’m so, so proud and so grateful to the team. I think the race pace generally quite good. It was just we were just off a set of tyres most of the time,” said Hamilton.
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Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com
