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Mercedes unhappy with strategy choices: 'Afraid Verstappen would do this'.
Looking back on a Grand Prix-weekend in which defending champion Mercedes didn't live up to its name Andrew Shovlin explains the controversial decision to bring Lewis Hamilton in for an early second pitstop. He saw his team embroiled in a situation with no real solution. The basic problem was that if we left it later and later, at some point, Verstappen was going to stop anyway. So you would lose the ability to attempt an undercut", Shovlin explained in the usual strategy debrief from Mercedes. Read more Rosberg blames Hamilton for insincerity: 'Came in handy' Continuing, he also sees problems on the other side of the coin: "If we brought it earlier and earlier the risk is that...
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