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Mercedes goes conservative for Brazil

In recent races, Mercedes's tyre strategy has paid dividends at a time the odds appeared to be in favour of its rivals. For the penultimate race of the season, at a circuit popular with just about everyone bar Brazil's president, Jair Bolsonaro, while its rivals load up with C3 softs, Mercedes and McLaren take just 8 sets of the red-banded rubber. Ferrari, Red Bull, Renault, Haas and Racing Point all take the full complement of 10 sets of softs, while Alfa Romeo, Toro Rosso and Williams take nine. And while world champion (x6), Lewis Hamilton leads the way in terms of C2 mediums, the Briton taking four sets, like the majority of drivers he opts for just one set of C1 hards, his go-to tyre...
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