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'Even with the same pit stop strategy Mercedes couldn't have won'

Max Verstappen won the second GP at Silverstone gloriously due to the strategy his team already employed during Q2 on Saturday. For the first time this season Mercedes was cracked. In hindsight it turns out that it wasn't just Red Bull's strategy that delivered the victory. Mercedes was too slow Auto Motor und Sport asks itself out loud: 'Could Mercedes have won?' The short answer is: 'No'. Even if Mercedes had used the same strategy as Verstappen did, they wouldn't have passed the Dutchman because they simply didn't have the pace. 'The pit stops had nothing to do with it, Mercedes was just too slow', writes the German medium. 'It is still being investigated but at least it couldn't have...
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