• F1 20🔴23 Miami Grand Prix - Full race 🍌results from round 5

Mercedes issued team instructions via their team radio requesti♌ng that Hamilton did not 🅘obstruct Russell’s charge.

"We have George 1.1 behind," Ha🃏milton was told by his engineer.

"We aren't racing him. We are racing Esteban 🔜Ocon. So let's not hold each other up."

Hamilton ♒said: "He can go by but I am not backin𒀰g off though."

Hamilton did let Russell through - the younger drꦗiver finished in P4, the seven-time world champion settled for P6.

Mercedes team principal Wolff insisted that he did not expect any issue from requesting that Hami☂lton prioꦐritised Russell in that moment.

“No, absolutely not. George was a stop ahead,”✤ Wolff said.

“To see two teammates, bothꦉ on very good levels, they are both so straightforward. 

“That is good at such a difficult moment.”

The subject of relationship between teamm𒅌ates has continually cropped up this season as Red Bull’s Max Verstappen battles Sergio Perez with the F1 title at stake.

Christian Horner even teased Wolff th🍰at Red Bull were navigating that awkwardness better than Mercedes did when they had Hamilton and Nico Rosberg on top.

꧃But Mercedes are in a very different place this season, and Wolff reacted to the F1 Miami Gr𝕴and Prix: “The car was good today.

“From P13 itﷺ’s pretty difficult if you start on the same strategy as everyone else to pass.

“There🐠fore we went with hards. Then we saw others had thought the same.

“Considering the strategy hope that we had, that nobody would start on the hards, 🐓was diminished, he drove a great race.”