He added: “Max Verstappen started on the hard tyre and as it happened he had the two Ferraris behind him but they were never in a position to challenge. He made a great start, by the time he came out of Turn 1 he was already three or four lengths ahead of Charles Leclerc, and he just pulled away relatively quickly because in his mind the real threat was going to be potentially Lewis Hamilton on the medium tyres.
“2.3 [seconds] became 3.2, became 3.6, became 4.1, became 4.4. And this was Max controlling the race but pulling away from Lewis. Lewis pushing as hard as he dared on the medium, this was a decisive moment in terms of Max Verstappen winning the Mexican Grand Prix.
“If Lewis had known that the tyres were going to last to the point where he could do a 21.3 on the last lap, how much quicker would he have driven, how much more would he have pushed the tyres over the previous 12 laps?”
