Things are cool with Mercedes: Hamilton

Seven-time Formula One champion Lewis Hamilton said things were okay between him and the Mercedes team, days after criticising their strategy during the Singapore Grand Prix on Sept 22, in which he finished sixth.

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Hamilton had qualified third, but was left frustrated after his team asked him to start with soft tyres, while he wanted to use mediums instead.

“I battled as hard as I could to fight to go on the medium tyres, but the team continued to suggest that I started on the soft... everyone was on medium,” Hamilton said later at an event.

The team's technical director James Allison acknowledged the mistake, saying it ruined the race for Hamilton, who is sixth in the championship with 174 points, while Red Bull’s Max Verstappen leads with 331.

However, Hamilton took to social media on Sept 28 to say the soft-tyre strategy was a bold and risky move that could have given him an advantage at the start of the race, but did not pay off.