“Afraid Max Verstappen Would Do This”: Mercedes Unhappy with Strategy Choices
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Looking back the Dutch Grand Prix, Mercedes failed to live up to their own pace and momentum-built session after session. Upon which Andrew Shovlin discussed the controversial decision to bring the seven-time World Champion, Lewis Hamilton in for a very early pitstop. Moreover, he went onto reveals what position was the team in and why did they take the necessary steps.
Although the Brackley-based team are leading in the Constructors Standings, yet Lewis Hamilton has gone onto trail by 3 points to winner of the last two grand prix Max Verstappen. So where do the defending champions, Mercedes lie ahead of the races in Monza and Sochi? Andrew Shovlin spoke upon the same.
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“The basic problem was that if we left it later and later, at some point, Verstappen was going to stop anyway. So you would lose the ability to attempt an undercut”, Shovlin explained in the usual strategy debrief from Mercedes as quoted by GPBlog.
Continuing, Andrew Shovlin also sees problems on the other side of the coin, “If we brought it earlier and earlier the risk is that Lewis would have run out of tyres by the end of the race, and you can’t mount any kind of credible challenge. “
“That was the reason we knew we were gonna have to drop into backmarker traffic”, the strategic director is aware. ” It’s fair to say that we did lose quite a critical chunk of time.” Still plenty to talk about at Mercedes, that much is certain.
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