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Mercedes explains choice: "With Lewis, we really had nothing to lose"
The Monaco Grand Prix was decided by strategic choices. Not only up front, but also in the midfield. Mercedes drivers George Russell and Lewis Hamilton were both on a different strategy, with Russell skipping the intermediates step. Andrew Shovlin, trackside engineering director at Mercedes, explains why. He also elaborates on the decision not to bring Hamilton in earlier, given Pierre Gasly 's good lap times on intermediates. "It was all about what was happening behind Lewis," Shovlin begins his explanation in a YouTube-video from Mercedes. "He didn't have a clear pit stop window, if he had we would definitely have done it earlier." Read more FIA bids farewell to...
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