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Horner on Hamilton ignoring team order: It's a difficult situation

Article To news overview © Mercedes Red Bull's Christian Horner has said that Lewis Hamilton's initial resistance of Mercedes' instruction to him to pit for fresh Intermediate tyres in Turkey could have made him a "hero", had his original set held on just a few laps more. With the used Intermediates looking competitive for almost the entire race, Hamilton was running in third in the closing stages but resisted the call from Mercedes to pit for a fresh set. Hamilton, as well as Ferrari's Charles Leclerc, initially looked like they were pulling a masterstroke, but the tyres began to fade badly about 10 laps from home. Hamilton felt that the tyres could have made it to the end of...
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