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Mercedes: "Verstappen was saving his tires while fighting with Bottas"
During the Hungarian Grand Prix Max Verstappen was under pressure from Valtteri Bottas. Mercedes then made the choice to have Bottas stop again for the hard tire, to have a better chance of overtaking Verstappen. This strategy was similar to that of 2019, when they had Lewis Hamilton stop for fresh tyres, to attack Verstappen with fresh tyres. In a video on the Youtube channel of Mercedes Andrew Shovelin, trackside engineer of Mercedes, explains what the goal of Mercedes was with the extra pit stop. "Bottas came behind Verstappen, but he didn't really have a chance to overtake him because the tyres were in equal conditions. You could see that Max was saving his tires while he was...
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