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Data v Common Sense
'We have to follow the data, this is how the sport works,' said Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff after a strategic blunder lost Lewis Hamilton the Monaco Grand Prix. On the surface, it seems an odd position to take. But it's rather more complex than that. Although many viewers were reportedly screaming at their TVs when Mercedes chose to bring Hamilton in for that late safety car pit stop which lost him the race, so ‘obvious' was the error, they may not have been had they been armed with the same data as the team. And in F1 data is king. Many have said had Ross Brawn still been in charge, he'd have not made that call – and quite possibly he wouldn't have. But consider what Ross...
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