Mercedes have explained how the call to switch onto softs for the final stint was key to168澳洲5最新开奖结果: Lewis Hamilton’s victory at the F1 British Grand Prix.

Seven-time world champion clinched a record-extending ninth British Grand Prix win in a t♌hrilling wet-dry race at Silverstone, having overcome McLaren’s Lando Norris before holding off world championship leader Max Verstappen.

The decisive moment in the race came when Mercedes called Hamilton into th⭕e pits to switch to slicks following a spell of rain. Hamilt꧂on was able to jump ahead of Norris after he pitted a lap later and overshot his marks in the McLaren pits.

Hamilton had to fend off a late charge from 2021 title rival Verstappen in the closing four laps but mana൩ged his tyres and proved to have enough of a gap to claim ๊his first F1 victory in almost three years.

“We did have to do something different, that was very simple,” Mercedes team principal Toto W꧅olff explained after Ham🎀ilton’s first win since the 2021 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix.

"We didn’t believe the hard was the right tyre to go. In hindsight, probably the right order of priority would be medium, hard, soft. That’s what would have bඣeen the quickest.

“But we saved it at the end. I think our tyre deg was good compared 🔯to the McLarens and that secured the victory.”

Asked if Hamilton himself had made the cal🌊l for sof😼ts, Wolff replied: “I think the communication with the driver today was very good and we kept the channel open at all times.

“Among ourselves we kept discussing the pros and cons, we were monitoring the gaps and t😼he strategy said we believe the crossover is now. And that was spot on, that was the perfect time to pℱit.”

Norris admꦇitted he and McLaren had “thrown away” another potential w▨in with two poor strategy calls.

“[We are] not making the right decisions, but at the same time I blame myself today for not making some of the right decisions. I hate it. I hate ending in this p🍸osition 🔯and having excuses for not doing a good enough job.

“So many things were going well, and we threw it ༒away in the final s🐽top. It was one lap, but also I don't think it was the lap.

"I think even if I boxed on the perfect lap, our decision to go onto the soft was the wrong one, and I think Lewis still would have won no matter what. Two﷽ calls from our side cost🐻 us everything today so, especially here, it's pretty disappointing."