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Hamilton's perfect timing

Lewis Hamilton's call to pit on lap 43, just before rain arrived to coat the whole circuit, sealed him his British Grand Prix victory. Hamilton's motivation for pitting was that his tyres were finished, Rosberg was catching fast and looked certain to pass him on the next lap. This would then have given Rosberg strategic priority as to who stopped first - almost guaranteeing a Rosberg victory. Hamilton was hoping that the rain would arrive soon after he pitted - and was encouraged by the blackness of the clouds he was seeing as he came down Hangar Straight. As he said afterwards, "For the first time in my whole F1 career, I made the perfectly right choice in coming in [when I did]. I...
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