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Rob Smedley Q&A

After Williams went from running one-two to finishing off the podium, Rob Smedley faced the written media to try to defend the team's strategy. What was the decision making process at the start of the race when you told the drivers to stop fighting? "The key thing there was we didn't want to get held up fighting each other too hard and that was the message that we gave because if they were fighting each other too hard then we weren't pulling away from Mercedes. We saw that we could have a reasonable pace against them, we knew that they were saving up their tyres until the end of the stint and we had to make sure we still had good tyres. Once it became clear that everything had calmed...
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