A lack of battery charge in Lewis Hamilton’s Mercedes Formula 1 car’s engine left him a “sitting duck” against Max Verstappen during the Brazilian Grand Prix. Hamilton moved into the lead of the race on Lap 21 at Interlagos after Mercedes successfully pulled off an undercut strategy on polesitter Max Verstappen, but the Red Bull driver quickly blasted back past along the main straight. Speaking after the race, Mercedes technical director James Allison revealed Hamilton was so easily overtaken due to using up all the battery deployment in his W10 while setting a fast lap to make the undercut possible. “The pace with our car was not really there to be able to do the sort of...
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