2019 British GP - Silverstone
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Originally Posted by
Nitrodaze
For a tyre that ended up doing the fastest lap of the race and smashing the track race lap record, l don't see how any of what you say has any bearing on why they asked Hamilton to pit. They gave no reason and they did not ask the driver of the state of the tyres. He was simply called in out of the blue with only four laps to go. There is no way in hell anyone, including Bottas was going to catch Hamilton before the end of the race from over 20 seconds. I don't buy it.
That was either the daftest pit call in F1 history or attempt to manipulate the end of the race. We are talking Mercedes here, they don't make these kinds of daft mistakes.
I guess if they had time to pit him that close to the end of the race it was based on not gambling on the potential for a tyre failure or a safety car maybe.
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