Heavily worn tyres, a three-second and shrinking pit stop safety gap to Pierre Gasly, and Charles Leclerc closing fast on new intermediates, were Mercedes correct to pit Lewis Hamilton? or was Lewis right to resist? For the second race in a row, ‘Hamilton vs. Mercedes' radio transmissions where in the spotlight. Just one race ago, the Briton refused a team order to pit as rain began to fall at the Sochi Autodrom during the closing stages of the Russian GP. The order to pit was repeated a lap later as the rain intensified. Hamilton complied the second time to his team’s instruction, despite protesting the move over the radio. His team turned out to be correct, and the result was...
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