There was an agonising decision on the Mercedes pitwall on lap 16 of the US Grand Prix which in hindsight they got wrong. It possibly cost Lewis Hamilton the team’s first win of the season. At that point Hamilton was running second to Lando Norris’s McLaren and around 4sec ahead of Max Verstappen’s Red Bull. Thermal degradation of the rear tyres is always the race day limitation around this place and everyone came
