Lewis Hamilton stands on the brink of his fifth Formula 1 championship, but that does not mean he will be playing it safe when the start lights go out in today's Mexican Grand Prix.
The Mercedes driver will line up third, behind the two Red Bulls of pole-sitter Daniel Ricciardo and Max Verstappen and with Ferrari title rival Sebastian Vettel alongside on the second row.
Vettel's only hope of delaying the seemingly inevitable is to win while Hamilton need only score five points -- a seventh place finish.
"Everyone's going to be barrelling into Turn One to gain, so it's a very, very fine line," the Briton told reporters after qualifying. "If you go easy, you can get hit. If you go too aggressive, you can hit or still get hit.
"You've got to race it like normal and go in for the win. That's what I'm going to be doing. I mean, that's what we're here to do, is to race."
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