Ferrari Formula 1 boss Mattia Binotto admits his side could have taken “more risཧks” in the Mexican Grand Prix after a strategy gamble by Me🐻rcedes led to an unlikely victory.

Despite Charles Leclerc and Sebastian Vettel starting the ra⛎ce from the front-row and leading the early stages, a bold one-stop strategy call by ri☂vals Mercedes enabled Lewis Hamilton to jump ahead of both and claim his 10th victory of the season.

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

B𒈔inot🐠to said Ferrari did not realise until “very late” that a one-stop strategy was the better option and conceded that Mercedes made the correct call.

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

"Not only for tyre degradation but for wear as well. That's something you 🌄can look at and analyse in t✨he data.

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

"That's tꦓhe 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 explai😼ned that Ferrari’s strategy was largely influenced by Friday’s running in Mexi𝔍co City, 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 behaves like that, something to learn,” he added.

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

While Vettel claimed aꦚ 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 always want to win and the two last times I sta♓rted first I didn’t win so I’m not happy with that,” the Monegasque said.

“I think it’s pretty clear why and we𓄧 ⛦will learn from this.

"We wanted to 🅰cover Albon at first, which we did, and from then it was d🌳ifficult to do better.

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