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Horner: Tough to challenge Lewis even with right tyres

 XPB Images Christian Horner admits “it would have been difficult to challenge” Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton at the rain-hit 2016 Brazilian Grand Prix even if Red Bull had made the right tyre call. The Milton Keynes-based outfit gambled on a switch to the intermediate compound only for the conditions to worsen at Interlagos. This forced both Red Bull drivers to pit for a new set of extreme-weather tyres, which dropped them down the order. Max Verstappen then showed tremendous speed to recover to third over the final segment of the race, but Horner thinks Hamilton, who led the race from start to finish, had the situation under control up front. “It would have been difficult...
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