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One more thing. Aside from Hamilton's great driving (though not as good as Webber's), he won because he had excellent tire strategy...and that started in qualifying.

I think Red Bull will be on-board with a similar strategy next race, and most other teams the race after that.

It's been interesting watching tire strategy evolve over the past two years. Bridgestones degraded very slowly, but teams would generally change tires when they refueled because there was no time penalty for doing so. Last season, Button proved that doing long stints on tires was preferable to spending time in the pits. This season, with the Pirrelli's degrading very quickly and the performance drop-off being very sudden, we are back to keeping the tires in their optimal sweet-spot being preferable. And having enough tires to make that happen starts in qualifying.
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