Hamilton remains confident: "We're still the best team"

Despite the recent dip in form, Lewis Hamilton has given his team Mercedes a vote of confidence as he came out and says the Silver Arrows are "still the best team" in Formula 1, as the five-time champion finished fourth after a questionable strategy call.

The Brit put in a massive qualifying lap to somehow get on the front row on the grid despite Mercedes' lack of pace at the Marina Bay Street Circuit, and he had a promising start of the race. He was right on top of Charles Leclerc until the Monegasque pitted first.

As Hamilton reveals, he wasn't a fan of this strategy, as he had proposed something else.

"I knew we should [have] undercut, I knew it this morning in the brief I said let's just take the risk and they didn’t," he told present media including BBC Sport F1.