While some are of the opinion that it was the deployment of the safety car that effectively won the British Grand Prix for Lewis Hamilton, the Briton insists that it was his one-stop strategy that did it. Team boss Toto Wolff has already revealed that at a race morning meeting the drivers had asked for a strategy whereby the driver running second at the time of the pit stops would run an off-set strategy that would see the hard compound being used for the second stint. Valtteri Bottas made his first scheduled stop at the end of lap 16, however, teammate Hamilton not only extended his first stint, but gained a free pit stop when the safety car was deployed on lap 20 following Antonio...
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