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Mercedes defends 'messy' Hockenheim pit stop for Hamilton
Sunday's German Grand Prix pivoted on a dramatic moment mid-race when Mercedes' Lewis Hamilton spun off the track in wet conditions on lap 29, and then suffered an agonisingly long pit stop for a new front wing. Hamilton was in pit lane for 50 seconds, an eternity in F1 terms where stops are regularly completed in just two or three seconds. "There was a lot of chaos when Lewis came in," Mercedes trackside engineering director Andrew Shovlin admitted in the team's regular Pure Pit Wall debriefing video. "It looked messy. "We were in the pits ready for Valtteri," he explained. "He decided to stay out. At the same time, Lewis had gone off track, hit the wall,...
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