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‘Ballsy Strategy’ Compromised by Safety Car Arrival – Grosjean

Romain Grosjean admitted the safety car intervention meant it was always going to be difficult to make the planned one-stop strategy work to score points in Sunday’s Chinese Grand Prix, with the Frenchman ultimately being forced to switch tyres late on as he dropped down the field. The Haas F1 Team racer ran inside the top ten early on but found himself shuffled out of it by the two Spaniards in the field, Fernando Alonso and Carlos Sainz Jr., but stuck to his strategy call early on, which saw the Frenchman switch from the Ultrasoft to the Medium tyre on lap sixteen. Grosjean had hoped to be able to make gains late in the race but saw his luck run out when the two Red Bull Toro Rosso...
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