"This is completely a case of the team being a bit too concerned and therefore committing errors." After all, not being directly involved, Qin Miao could observe the situation from a relatively objective standpoint.
"The team thought that if there was no pit stop, Hamilton would be overtaken by Perez and Leclerc because of tire degradation, or perhaps even by Gasly, or worse, there might be a blowout." Qin Miao analyzed, "So rather than losing so many positions at that time, it's better to give up two positions and secure Hamilton in fifth place. This way, Hamilton still has a brand new set of intermediate tires to push with, and with Hamilton's skills, he might catch up."
However, things did not go as expected; under the conditions of the track at that time, the intermediate tires overheated too easily.
But we can't say the strategy team was wrong in its thinking, just that the timing was off."
