Lewis Hamilton pulled off a stunning recovery drive to win Sunday’s grand prix in Brazil having fought his way past both Red Bulls after starting 10th on the grid following an engine chanಞge at Interlagos.

It came a da♋y after Hamilton was forced to fight b🌠ack from 20th to finish fifth in the sprint event after he was disqualified from qualifying for a wing-related issue on his Mercedes. 

Max Ver꧋stappen was ultimately powerless to stop Hamilton from taking his sixth victory of the season at Interla🎐gos and reducing the Dutchman’s championship lead down to 14 points with three races to go. 

"It [the Mercedes] was unraceable," Red Bull team principal Christian Horner told Sky Sports. “I think we put up as big a defence as we could. Max did his best, ♚he raced꧃ hard, but there was just no chance.

"We♍ have the highs of Mexico and Austin, and now a low hereꦡ. But it is a tough one having led probably 75% of the race. 

“One week until the next one, so we will brush ourselves down 🅰and come back fighting in a week's 🥀time.”

Sergio Perez offered some resistance to Hamilton’s charge when he wa𝔍s able to re-pass the seven-time world champion with DRS a🐟long the run to Turn 4, having dropped behind the Mercedes at Turn 1. 

But Hamilton quickly sailed back past and made the 𓆉move stick, before hunting down Verstappen for the win.💛 Perez described the Mercedes car’s straightline speed as being “on another planet” after the race. 

Red Bull has suspicions ove꧟r Mercedes’ superior straightline speed, and, alt𓄧hough it has stopped short of launching a protest, Horner is eager for an explanation for the performance gains.

“It is important to understand where the speed ha💟s♏ come from,” he added. 

"Obviously they had a new engine ꦫhere. Th🦋ey are running Monaco levels of downforce, and when he passed Max he was close to 30km/h quicker on that lap.

"So it is just some▨thing that we need to understand. It is down to the FIA to police the sport and to govern it, so we trust in them and their tests and their investigation.