Why Mercedes can realistically resist Verstappen to win in Brazil

Lewis Hamilton and George Russell will start on the front row of the grid for the Autodromo Jose Carlos Pace on Sunday. Russell won the sprint race in Mexico by four seconds. Lewis Hamilton finished second, with Carlos Sainz coming in third. Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel will serve a five-place penalty for using a fifth engine of this season. Red Bull's Max Verstappen finished fourth. The team's tyre strategy backfired. It was not clear whether medium tyres were better than yellow-walled medium. Free practice running had revealed that the difference between the two tyre compounds was marginal.