Hamilton

Max' tyres were on the edge (he was pushing hard to get the pit gap on Leclerc), had he stayed out there is every chance his tyres would have delaminated as well. Catch-22.

Entirely understandable that RedBull pitted him for that reason & fastest lap.

comment by Chelseamf™®© (U1677)
posted 1 hour, 4 minutes ago
Max' tyres were on the edge (he was pushing hard to get the pit gap on Leclerc), had he stayed out there is every chance his tyres would have delaminated as well. Catch-22.

Entirely understandable that RedBull pitted him for that reason & fastest lap.
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Load of bollox, he got new tyres for fastest lap, he never complained about his tyres being worn

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Hamilton is genius--did you see him adjusting the car metrics whilst his car was a going off the track with flat tyre. thinking of future possibilities, whist in the middle of trying to save the car.

max spare brain capacity-last person i saw do this was Schumacher, when leading on last corner of last lap, he slowed to allow his brother Ralph, to unlap himself, and do another lap, and Ralph got podium, i think, as a direct result

GENIUS

'Load of bollox, he got new tyres for fastest lap, he never complained about his tyres being worn'

Max had massive vibrations, due to 50 lacerations on the tyres!
Caused by debris, curbs, pushing hard.

The team (and Max) could see that the tyres were likely not going to last on the telemetry, hence mutual decision between him and team to pit.

Given that softer tyres will be used this weekend, Pirelli will lower the tyre pressures.

Or the idea of using softer tyres for second race will simply be scrapped.

I think we all need to see that it was a boring procession with very handy Drs zone that made passing too easy.

The safety car due to an accident put everyone on hard tyres and trying to not race but car save.

I am all for a 2 stop min race

Hamilton joins Mercedes and year on year, they have a superb car.

Hamilton leaves Mclaren and they have not had a pole or a win since he left.

Clearly it is the car

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