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Today shapes as an incredibly intriguing race on the tactical front, with no real clear optimal strategy.
It’s probably a two-stopper, but what kind of two-stopper? A lot of the teams have brought two sets of hard tyres for the race but this doesn’t include the Red Bulls, Ferraris, or Aston Martins — meaning that we could see a battle of teams with varying strategies of when and how often they use their hards.