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Mercedes had planned alternative strategy for Hamilton until Verstappen overtake
Article To news overview © Mercedes Mercedes had originally planned a one stop strategy for Lewis Hamilton's Spanish GP, but were forced to reconsider when Red Bull's Max Verstappen stormed into the lead at Turn 1. Faced with having to chase after the race, rather than control it from the front, Mercedes switched Hamilton to an aggressive two stop strategy which, ultimately, turned out to be the better option. Mercedes' engineer Andrew Shovlin explained afterwards that the team had gone into the race with the mindset of a single stop. "We would have tried to do a one stop, because that was what we went into the race thinking and that's what everyone was thinking, because they were...
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