With Esteban Ocon’s Alpine departure confirmed for the end of the season.
Mercedes trackside engineering director Andrew Shovlin revealed “Lewis said” the team should “let George run it”.
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teams were looking to take a split approach in free practice – Ferrari confirming they were doing so midway through FP3 with Carlos Sainz on soft tyres and Charles Leclerc on mediums.
outqualifying his illustrious team-mate at each of the last three races in Miami.
but mostly myself and today just one of the worst races that I’ve driven.