Lewis Hamilton ensured he would take his defence of the Formula One world championship into the final two rounds with a dominant victory at the Mexican Grand Prix on Sunday but, while the three-times world champion admitted that to an extent the final result would be out of his hands, he said he would do everything to battle on against his Mercedes team-mate, Nico Rosberg.
Behind Hamilton’s almost incident-free run to the flag, however, a war of words erupted between Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel and Red Bull’s Max Verstappen after the pair engaged in a close-fought battle for third in the final laps.
Hamilton’s win at the Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez cuts Rosberg’s lead in the Championship to 19 points but the German can still take the title with a win at the next round in Brazil – a track at which Hamilton has yet to record a victory in his career – or a second and third place against wins for the British driver there and at the final meeting in Abu Dhabi on 27 November.
