• Hamilton holds off challenge of Sebastian Vettel• Briton likely to seal sixth title at next race in TexasThe fiesta amid the glorious colour and noise of this packed circuit belonged emphatically to Lewis Hamilton. The
British driver took a consummate victory here from third on the grid but much as he revelled in a win scored completely against the odds, the championship champagne remains on ice for one more week at least. With his Mercedes teammate Valtteri Bottas finishing in third, Hamilton must wait until the next round in Austin before, surely, sealing his sixth
Formula One world championship.
Hamilton produced a perfectly controlled, confident drive exploiting a race strategy called to perfection by Mercedes. With Peter Bonnington, Hamilton’s usual race engineer, absent for medical reasons, it fell to his replacement Marcus Dudley to step up and he pulled off a blinder. Executing from the pit wall with aplomb he will be calling the shots once more at the US GP.