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You're right, it was Lapierre who got into some trouble with traffic and that's how Audi caught him. Nakajima triple stinted in his time in the car to bring it home for the win, he double stinted his tires once (2nd and 3rd stint) and still pulled a gap at the end to the Audi. The track in Shanghai is dusty and isn't used often, they're complaining about tire marbles building offline. So lapping traffic may put the cars offline in those marbles and hinder tire life. That's the whole reason behind Vasselon's statement. If it's going to be bad for Toyota it'll be even worse for Audi, so I think it'll be an interesting race. The track is wide enough and has big straights that traffic shouldn't be a huge issue so I hope we don't see incidents like at Fuji in the braking zone before the chicane.
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