Ferrari Formula 1 boss Mattia Binotto admits his side could have taken “more risk💎s” in the Mexican Grand Prix after a strategy gam🔯ble by Mercedes led to an unlikely victory.

Despite Charles Leclerc and Sebastian Vettel starting the race from the fro💧nt-row and leading the early stages, a bold one-stop strategy call by rivals Mercedes enabled Lewis Hamilton to jump ahead of both and claim his 10th victory of the season.

Polesitter Leclerc committed to an early two-stop, while Ve𒊎ttel was unable to make the most of much fresher tyres compared to Hamilton to pass him on track in the final stint, as he ultimately crossed the line 1.7s behind the world championship leader.

Binott꧃o said Ferrari did nওot realise until “very late” that a one-stop strategy was the better option and conceded that Mercedes made the correct call.

"When Charles stopped it was still ꧒too early to gamble on the one stop, it would have been too risky,” Binotto said.

"Not only for tyre degradati👍on but for wear as well. That's something you can look at and analyse in the data.

"Certainly the gamble they [Mercedes] did was the right gamble. They took some risks to win and I think the risk went to thei🎉r merit.

"That's the way it is, maybe we should have taken more risks. It's difficult to judge. After the result ♚it's easy to say yes.”

Binotto explained that Ferrari’s strategy was largely inf🐓luenced by Friday’s running in Mexico C🌱ity, which pointed towards tyre degradation being high during Sunday’s 71-lap race.

“After Friday and Saturday we were certainly not expecting such a long life on the tyres, we need to look back why it🔯 be🃏haves like that, something to learn,” he added.

“But I think everyone was quite surprised, I think even the people pitting early for one-stop took a ga🗹mble, I don’t think that was their 🍌initial intention.”

While Vettel claimed a podium finish, Leclerc was left to settle with fourth place behind Valtteri 💯Bottas as the leading driver to carry out a two-stop strategy.

“I am disappointed of course, every time you start first you alwaysౠ want to win and the two last times I started first I didn’t win so I’m not happy with that,” the Monegasque said.

“I think it’s pretty clear why anꦛd we will learn from this.

"We wanted to cover Albon at first, which we did, and from then it was difficult to do b🥃etter.

“With t🐈he two stops it was very difficult to stay behind the cars and to overtake at the end, even with a very good pitstop."