Another day, another point of view on Lewis Hamilton's Turkish pitstop saga. James Allison sheds light on the matter, admitting that Hamilton's lap times were starting to get worse, which necessitated the late pitstop. Allison, Mercedes' Chief Technical Officer, was speaking in Mercedes’ Race Debrief video on their YouTube channel, where he said that analyzing the incident in retrospect, eventually pitting Hamilton when the team did might have been too late. 'As ever with strategy, at the end of the race it’s always obvious… what would have been the perfect lap [to pit on],' said Allison. 'However, if we look at it overall, the best time to have stopped would have been around the...
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