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Button thinks Hamilton suffered from lack of information

Jenson Button feels Mercedes' biggest mistake in Turkey was not clearly explaining to Lewis Hamilton that he was going to lose positions when he pitted. Heading into the final 10 laps at the Istanbul Park circuit, Hamilton was running in third place behind Valtteri Bottas and Max Verstappen. But unlike the two ahead of him, he was still on the intermediate tyres that he started the grand prix with, and they were badly worn. After a bit of persuasion, Mercedes convinced Hamilton to pit for fresh inters and he dropped to fifth place, losing out to Sergio Perez and Charles Leclerc. Mercedes, though, believed if he didn't pit, he would have been passed by those two anyway as well as Pierre...
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