Austrian Grand Prix 2016, Spielberg - Race 9/21

What if you have two cars start on softs, the Merc goes 60 laps, but a Mclaren goes 45laps on them. Do you blame Pirelli for frankly Merc cracking something that gives them epic tire life compared to the majority of the grid?
 
I'm still not at all convinced Hamilton won't two stop as well.

The team should however give Hamilton the first pit and let him undercut, they've utterly screwed him out of track position here for no reason. If they decide to two stop him, which if everyone else pits twice there is no reason for them not to, for safety reasons then they needlessly kept him out 5-6 laps longer than required and had they not done that he'd be miles away from Rosberg.
 
Ted/Crofty/Brundle were going on about how bad rosbergs pit stop was and that it put him in traffic but now it's suddenly the optimal strategy and it screwed hamilton?
 
If they were on 2 different teams, Hamilton would still have stayed out.

So I don't see why Mercedes will swap them round.
 
So 2 stop window opening now, plenty of time to come out ahead of Button.

Don't think they could create gap ahead of Ricciardo/Raikkonnen.
 
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