2020 Turkish Grand Prix

Four-time world champion Sebastian Vettel summed it up: “If we’re honest, it wasn’t his race to win and he still won it.”

Lewis Hamilton has won 10 of the 14 races so far this season, but make no mistake, the victory that secured him a seventh drivers’ title was truly the drive of a champion.

Mercedes did not have the quickest package in Turkey – far from it. Qualifying had shown the raw pace struggles in cold and wet conditions, and given parc ferme regulations, there was no way of addressing that through set-up changes.