Mercedes Formula 1 boss Toto Wolff is wary about “unconsciously” favouring either o🐟f its drivers by carrying out different strategies at the British Grand Pri𝄹x.

🎀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 B🃏ritish GP win at Silverstone.

Bottas 🃏admitted after the race that he thought a one-stop was “out of the question” and said Mercedes had made a mistake by not executing the same strategy for both c✤ars.

Mercedes has tended to run both of its drivers on the same strategy in t♏he past to avoid a scenario that favours one driver over the other. Wolff explained the thinking behind the decision to mix up its strategic options following the race.

“The discussion we had in the mornin💯🌌g of putting them on the same tyres and the same strategy basically Turn 1 or Lap 1 would lock in the result,” Wolff said.

“We felt, picking up on their suggestions, it would provide and interesting race. It still overlapped on many insta🔜nces and we k💧new they would be racing each other but maybe on different strategies.

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

“That has created more experience and more data for us to judge whether that is something we do ꦅin the future.”