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Horner surprised by Mercedes strategy

Time and time again we are told that there are no points on Saturday only on Sunday, and in focussing on pole position on Saturday afternoon, Christian Horner believes Mercedes 'missed a trick' by not following the example of Max Verstappen with at least one of its cars. Though the German team locked-out the front row of the grid, they did so, like almost all the other cars around them, on the yellow-banded medium tyres. However, Max Verstappen used the hards in Q2, and though he would lack the medium's pace in the opening stages of the race he would have durability. It was a gamble that paid off handsomely. Jubilant that his team had scored the first non-Mercedes win of the year,...
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