McLaren's Team Principal Andrea Stella reveals the thought process behind Lando Norris's early pit stop in the Hungarian GP.
's earlier pitstop which ended up with contentious team order discussions asking the British driver to let his teammate Oscar Piastri pass for the win.
"The first one, we didn't want to pit too early because the tyres were degrading a lot and we didn't want to run out of tyres should we stop and become a problem at the end of the race. Therefore, we just wanted to delay the pit stop as much as possible. The second element is that you can have a problem at the pit stop. So you need to go safe from a pit stop point of view.
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