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“So, we didn’t get the places at the start, the pace started building up from around about Lap 5 and that left Lewis with a car that was not particularly happy anyway, suffering from quite poor tyre degradation and needing to come in early as a consequence and really ruined his race for him. Just a clear mistake.”
Allison was then asked about Hamilton having a new medium tyre available after starting on softs and if that was considered for deployment by the team later in the race – particularly in the event of a Safety Car period.
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“It was considered, it was certainly there as a great weapon had there been a Safety Car at an opportune moment in the race,” he continued. “That would have been one of the upsides of that strategy.
“Once embarked upon the soft-hard strategy, we were considering changing to a two-stop for Lewis at various points during the race. But although that would have put him out on fresher rubber and he would have been swift on that fresher rubber, all our calculations suggested that he would not actually have gained back the pit stop loss.
“So, it was there in the hutch, could have used it, would have been good at a Safety Car, but in a normal uninterrupted race, which for the first time in forever we got in Singapore, that tyre was not a thing that would have helped Lewis’ weekend.”
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