Special circumstances provided Mercedes with an opportunity to use more tyres than usual during Friday's practice, a change that led to more running and therefore to a benefit for the fans according to Lewis Hamilton. The cancellation of Saturday's track activity allowed teams to tap their allocation of tyres for that day and add an extra set to their normal quota of two sets per Friday session. "It's been more interesting than a normal Friday as we have had to adjust from the normal programme with the poor weather expected tomorrow," explained Mercedes chief race engineer Andrew Shovlin. "We'd already decided to bring a Saturday tyre set into Friday morning, even before we...
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