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Early stop was Hamilton's ‘main opportunity' at COTA

Mercedes think stopping for hard tyres on lap eight could have been a winning strategy for Lewis Hamilton at the United States Grand Prix. For much of the last 20 of the 56 laps in Austin, it looked as though the timing of Hamilton’s two pit-stops might be perfect in enabling him to pass Max Verstappen for the victory. The World Champion, who took the early lead from P2 on the grid, stopped on laps 14 and 37 but was undercut on the first occasion by Verstappen, who had new tyres fitted on laps 11 and 29. That meant the Dutchman had to survive 27 laps on his second new set of the hard rubber and was vulnerable to the pursuing Hamilton, but the Red Bull driver hung on to win by 1.333sec....
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