Did Mercedes hurt their chances of victory in Austin with an attempted one-stopper?
Christian Horner says after Mercedes aborted a one-stopper for Lewis Hamilton they were in “no man’s land”, but he’s still confident even without their strategy issues Max Verstappen had enough to hold him off.
But while Mercedes wanted to extend Hamilton’s opening stint with a one-stopper in mind, they pitted him on lap 21 with the Briton coming out behind the Red Bull. “The debate was do we run that hard in the middle stint or the medium. We knew going up against Lando that they committed to the two hards so we felt going medium-medium.
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