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Originally Posted by Razzzor
The problem is Nico had the race won from the first corner, it didn't really matter if Lewis was faster, they were always going to pit Nico with the better strategy since he was the leader, Lewis probably wasn't even allowed to go off strategy. He had no chance but to follow Nico home.
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That's the same strategy they follow almost every race.
It has little or nothing to do with Mercedes preferring Nico to win.
I think pitting Lewis first would have been stupid
* it would have been contradictory to how they normally handle pitstops
* it would have appeared they preferred Lewis to win, not Nico.
You would have a point on Mercedes' possible preference - or how bad they want to finish 2nd in WDC as well - if Nico would have been 2nd on the road and called into pit first.
But that didn't happen.
Maybe next race? We'll see...