Mercedes Formula 1 boss Toto Wolff is wary about “unconsciously” favouring either of its drivers by ca𝔉rrying out different strategies at the Brit🌸ish Grand Prix.

A one-stop strategy, combined with a fortunately෴-timed Safety Car, helped Lewis Hamilton beat polesitter and teammate Valtteri Bottas - who was two-stopping - to score a record sixth British GP win at Silverstone.

Bottas admitted after the race thaౠt he thought a one-stop was “out of the question” and said Mercedes had made a mistake by not executing the same st🐼rategy for both cars.

Merܫcedes has tended to run both of its drivers on the same strategy in the past to avoid a scenario that favours one dri💃ver over the other. Wolff explained the thinking behind the decision to mix up its strategic options following the race.

“The discꦇussion we had in the morning of putting them on the same tyres and the same strategy basically Turn 1 or Lap 1 would lock in the resu🌞lt,” Wolff said.

“We felt, picking up on theiꦏr suggestions, it would provide and interesting race. It still overlapped on many instances and we kn🐲ew they would be racing each other but maybe on different strategies.

“I think in hi🅺ndsight the argument has value, I think we need to look at how we actually do it, are we favouring somebody uncons🍎ciously, which we wouldn’t want to do.

“That has created mor🦩e experience and more data for us to judge wheth📖er that is something we do in the future.”