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When they went one stop, isn't it incumbent on the pit wall to tell the driver to lift and coast even to ensure they meet the weight restriction?George's car would have been compliant if:
- They didn't swap to a one-stop strategy, thereby increasing the amount of rubber lost from his own tyres.
- He was racing at a track other than Spa, where there's no formation lap, and thus no ability to collect marbles on the parade lap.
I feel that George deserved the win, but Mercedes did not. I know it's impossible to separate the two in the real world.
That's fair. I suspect they were also caught out by his change to a one-stop strategy, which increased the wear on his 2nd set of tyres, to the point that he went under the minimum weight. That's something they weren't planning on at the start of the race. However, it's also something they should have been aware of, and taken into consideration.