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British GP was a turning point

Lewis Hamilton and Sebastian Vettel absolutely aced their pit-stop calls at Silverstone to change onto intermediate tyres. It was a little easier for Vettel because he was several seconds further away from the pit entry as the forecast rain became ever more imminent. But as Kimi Raikkonen had demonstrated with his curiously very early change, there's no point thrashing rain tyres through fundamentally dry 150mph corners. They are simply not designed to handle that. Like many, including Nico Rosberg who was on the same piece of tarmac in the same car, I thought that Hamilton had pitted a touch early and mostly because he was being caught very quickly by his team-mate in damp conditions...
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