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McLaren explains reason behind F1 British GP hard tyre call for Norris
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Thank you for quoting the article.
I was wondering why McLaren stuck with the hards but that reasoning makes sense. Still not sure why they went with the hards in the first place though. The race was well over half finished and they could have completed it on softs. In the end I don't think it changed anything but curious nonetheless.
I'm guessing one reason was that they had new hards available, but only scrub softs.
I wonder if they were concerned about their deg with softs since Silverstone is typically a high deg track. Maybe they didn't do any long runs in FP and didn't have the data to show that they could last 20+ laps.