Mercedes have admitted they were “probably a little bit too slow” to recognise the threat of a one-stopping Sebastian Vettel in Bahrain.

Although Vettel led the early stages of the grand prix, it looked as if the Ferrari driver would lose the race to Valtteri Bottas after Mercedes put the Finn on a one-stop strategy, running the medium tyres in the second stint.

As Ferrari have put the soft tyres on Vettel’s car during his stop it was assumed that the German was on a two-stopper.

He wasn’t.

Vettel ran the soft tyres for a marathon 39 laps, beating Bottas to the chequered flag by 0.699s.

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