Mercedes has admitted to being totally baffled as to how Lewis Hamilton was able to post a new lap record on the last lap of Sunday's British Grand Prix on hard tyres that were 32 laps old. Usually the Briton is heard expressing concern at his tyres, but on Sunday, going against team orders, he stayed on his hard tyres, and already assured of victory in his home race posted a new lap record for good measure. Indeed, his time was 0.037s quicker that that posted by teammate Valtteri Bottas just two laps after stopping for (used) softs on lap 45. 'We truthfully have no idea at all how Lewis did the fastest lap of the race on 32-lap old, hard tyres,' admits the German team's chief strategist,...
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