SPORT 07 I Wanted to Start and I Thought I Was Going to Start, but the Coach PSG’S Kylian Mbappe Made His Choice and I Had to After Scoring a TODAY’S ACTION Accept It
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THURSDAY 24 OCTOBER 2019 SPORT 07 I wanted to start and I thought I was going to start, but the coach PSG’s Kylian Mbappe made his choice and I had to after scoring a TODAY’S ACTION accept it. I also wanted to show hat-trick against Club that it’s difficult to get by Brugge at Champions 17:20: Al Wakrah vs Al Khor at Al Wakrah Stadium 19:30: Umm Salal vs Qatar SC at Al Duhail Stadium without me. League. STATISTICS FOR THE MEXICAN GP Hamilton zooming in on Lap distance: 4.304km. Total distance: 305.354km (71 laps) 2018 pole: Daniel Ricciardo (Australia) Red Bull One minute 14.759 sec- onds. 2018 winner: Max Verstappen (Netherlands) Red Bull Race lap record: One minute 18.741 seconds (Valtteri Bottas, Mercedes, sixth title in the Americas 2018) Start time: 1310 local (1810 GMT) REUTERS Hamilton has not fin- be easy and we expect edented Mexican hat-trick TITLE MEXICO CITY ished in the top three at Mexico to be the most dif- after winning in 2017 and Mercedes took their sixth successive constructors’ title in Japan, equalling Formula One’s highest ficult one for us.” 2018 while Ferrari’s Ferrari’s 1999-2004 record. Lewis Hamilton looks sure altitude circuit, the Auto- If the champions Sebastian Vettel and Charles I think Mexico is They are sure of an unprecedented sixth championship double in a row, to join Michael Schumacher dromo Hermanos Rodriguez struggle in the thin air, as Leclerc have started the last with only Hamilton and Bottas in contention for the drivers’ crown. as only the second six-times which stands at 2,285 they have for the past two five races on pole position generally our worst Hamilton has a 64-point lead and will clinch his sixth title in Mexico if he Formula One world metres above sea level, since years, then Ferrari and Red between them. race of the year scores 14 points more than Bottas. The Briton would win any tie-break champion but the Briton will he won there in 2016. Bull can scent an Since Mexico returned to because he has nine wins to Bottas’s three, with only 4 rounds remaining. need to do something “I think Mexico is gen- opportunity. the calendar in 2015, the because of the way special too achieve the feat in erally our worst race of the Red Bull’sBull s Max Ver-Ver- winner has always come our car is set up Under the 25-18-15-12-10-8-6-4-2-1 scoring system, Hamilton must finish Mexico oonn Sunday.Sunday. year because of the way stappenstappen is from theth front row. and it’s going to be on the podium or the championship remains open until Texas a week later. 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RACE WINS Thatt means a podiumpodium ggoingoing tracktrack leftle this season where Hamilton and Bottas, the finish as thethe babarere minimumminimum to wewe cancan do a particularly winner in Japan, will be able Hamilton has 82 career victories from 246 starts, with Schumacher’s record if the 34-year-old-year-old is to seal good job,”jo motorsport.com to race without any team 91 in his sights. Vettel has 53. the championshipmpionship withwith quotedquoted thet Dutch youngster considerations now that Ferrari have won 238 races since 1950, McLaren 182, Williams 114, Mer- three racesces to spare, as sayingsayin after the Japanese Mercedes have clinched the cedes 99 and Red Bull 61. Former champions McLaren and Williams have and historyory susug-g- GrandGrand Prix.P constructors’ title for a sixth not won since 2012. gests thatat willwill “If“If wew can just finish year in a row and an Hamilton has won nine of 17 races so far this season, Bottas three, Verstap- be no easyeasy closeclose toto the podium or on unprecedented sixth suc- pen and Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc two, Vettel one. matter. thethe podiumpodi every weekend, cessive title double. Mercedes have had eight one-two finishes this season. thenthen I think that’s the The last back-to-back POLE POSITION maximummaxim for us at the round of the season is a Hamilton has a record 87 career poles, Vettel 57. moment.”mome sell-out for the fifth year in Only five races this season have been won from pole -- Bottas in Azerbai- NotN since 1990 has a a row. Racing Point’s Sergio jan, Hamilton in Monaco and France and Leclerc in Belgium and Italy. Lewis Hamilton FerrariFer driver tri- Perez is again the only Ferrari have had 64 front row lockouts, equalling Mercedes in the all-time umphedum in Mexico, a Mexican on the starting records. statistics that sounds grid. Any spy would be England must look to wasting smother NZ: Mehrtens their time, REUTERS you build yourself up for a a lot; drag them in. I’m not sure TOKYO massive defensive effort to come Billy Vunipola is at his energetic says Jenkins up fast and smack them in mul- best at the moment, but the All England must abandon thoughts tiple tackles and not let them go Blacks would respect the locks, REUTERS of providing a spectacle when forward. particularly Maro Itoje and TOKYO they face New Zealand in Satur- “They will have the ball... but Courtney Lawes.” day’s Rugby World Cup semi- England, through their line speed England will also have to Welsh skills coach Neil Jenkins final and opt for an effective must take away the value of their think carefully about their brushed off the possibility that style that may not be easy on the possession... the better plan has kicking game, Mehrtens said. enemy spies could be eyeing eyes, former All Blacks flyhalf to be to stop them from getting “Ben Youngs shouldn’t be Wales training sessions, saying Andrew Mehrtens has said. (the ball).” Mehrtens said box-kicking so much because they would be wasting their England face the holders at England would have to swap flu- that brings the danger of giving time. Yokohama hoping to improve idity for a tactically sound effort possession back again,” he said. “There’s quite a lot of their record of seven wins in 41 when they have the ball. “Yes, kick on Beauden buildings round us watching us meetings, and Mehrtens believes “What are England’s com- Barrett; England can pressurise train, but I’m not overly con- Eddie Jones’s men can prevail parative strengths? You want to him because if you put the high cerned about that at the end of with a simple plan. slow up the game. You want to ball up on him and you get there the day,” said Jenkins, whose “There’s no rocket science play set piece to set piece. That’s at the same time, even if he wins Britain’s Prince Charles talks with the Wales rugby team members Welsh side take on South Africa behind this mission. It doesn’t what the All Blacks don’t like,” the ball, you know he’s not still during their training session in Tokyo, yesterday. on Sunday for a place in the matter how the points come. Mehrtens said. there in the back line for the next rugby World Cup final. Don’t get sucked into playing “Beat them up and smother phase. England coach Eddie Jones better rugby, play more effective them. While it may get called “The defensive line can’t had earlier claimed that their rugby,” Mehrtens who played 70 ‘smothering’, no one cares if it really hold back, so that kick in Prince Charles pops training session had been times for New Zealand, wrote in works... this is not about pro- behind the number 12 and the filmed from a nearby Tokyo The Times newspaper.