2019 British GP - Silverstone

[Nitrodaze]

The reason they did it was to protect against another potential safety car situation where they are all bunched up and Hamilton would then be really exposed on 30 lap old tires. I get why they wanted to do it but in this scenario it was just adding unnecessary risk and it was the wrong call to make. It’s good to see Hamilton took the decision out of the teams hands. 3 years ago he would have pitted.

With four laps to the end, the smarter call would have been to take the risk of making it to the end of the race with the hard tyres, if after asking Hamilton this is the mutual agreement. Pitting is more risky in this situation. If a safety car was called out at 4 laps to the end of the race, chances are that the race would have finished under the safety car. There is no excuse that would explain a sensible reason to call Hamilton into the pits.