Hamilton finished fifth after spending much of the race battling for position with team-mate George Russell.
Lewis Hamilton criticised Mercedes’ tactics and suggested he and George Russell needed to “work as a team” after on-track battles throughout the Japanese Grand Prix.
Russell was struggling on his tyres having attempted a one-stop strategy, while others around him deployed a two-stop, and Hamilton urged his team to let him through.The 25-year-old resisted on the radio before being told “this is an instruction, George” and allowing Hamilton to pass. “Because he was trying to fight me he was damaging his tyres and I think it just made it all complicated.
“I needed to get as far clear as possible. I was on my way, around two seconds ahead and they asked me to give George DRS and I had to come off the gas down the straight.
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