He jumped to the back of the leading group by delaying his first stop and passed Norris shortly afterwards. The seven-time champion then began to challenge the Ferraris, with Verstappen moving into second at this point, ahead of Sainz and Leclerc, after overtaking the red cars with a later pit stop.

But Hamilton, who had no straight-line speed in his Mercedes, could not get past the red cars.

Instead, Mercedes made a second pit stop on lap 27, one lap ahead of Sainz and four laps ahead of Leclerc, and Hamilton used his pace to move into second place.

He overtook Verstappen with a succession of fastest laps, passing on the straight on lap 31.

Russell followed Leclerc on lap 32, and a few laps after his stop Hamilton took chunks out of his teammate’s lead, cutting it from 11.2 seconds to 7.4 seconds in seven laps.

But it soon became clear that Russell was in control of the race, and he led Hamilton to an unexpected one-two.

Behind them, the Ferraris closed in on Verstappen after their final pit stops, both passing him in the final ten laps.

Behind Norris, his teammate Oscar Piastri finished seventh while Haas driver Nico Hulkenberg, RB’s Yjuki Tsunoda and Red Bull’s Sergio Pérez completed the top 10.