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Vettel: Mercedes got lucky with strategy

Mercedes were able to pull off the one-stopper to perfection in Mexico, but Sebastian Vettel feels they had a fair bit of luck too. Charles Leclerc headed a Ferrari one-two ahead of Vettel in the opening stages of the Mexican Grand Prix, but Lewis Hamilton was able to pit on Lap 23 for the hard tyres and take them all the way until the end to claim victory. Vettel would finish the race just over a second behind Hamilton, and while he feels Ferrari maybe didn't quite have the pace to counter Hamilton's one-stop strategy, he does think that Mercedes got a little lucky and couldn't have known that it was going to work. 'I think if you start on the front row you're fighting for victory, so in...
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