Quote Originally Posted by Mark View Post
Can only assume that with the safety car being out Merc assumed that they could get Hammy into the pits and back out in the lead? They just got their sums badly wrong.
They probably calculated the gap before the Virtual Safety car and didn't account for any time loss from there until the pit-stop.

This was the biggest preventable team blunder I've seen in a while.

All things considered I thought Hamilton handled it pretty well.