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Hamilton questions strategy that left "mountain to climb"

Lewis Hamilton said he relied on his engineers to give him the best strategy to beat Mercedes teammate Nico Rosberg in the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, but they left him with a gap that was "way too big" to catch him at the end. Hamilton closed the gap between himself and Rosberg to 1.359s when the German pitted for the second time, but was 12.573s in arrears after his own final pitstop over 10 laps later. "I don't know the big picture and ultimately you have to rely on the engineers to give you the optimum strategy at that point," said Hamilton. "Honestly, I don't really understand it, but I came out 11 seconds behind. "I had a mountain to climb, which I pushed as...
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