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Wolff explains Hamilton pit stop: "Nobody had seen those crosses"

Toto Wolff will look back on the Italian Grand Prix with disappointment. The expectation of Mercedes, and actually of the entire paddock, was that Mercedes would score an easy 1-2 in Italy. However, due to Valtteri Bottas' bad start and a heavy penalty for Lewis Hamilton, things went very differently. Hamilton's punishment was due to a miscommunication from the pit wall, explains Wolff after the Grand Prix. "It was a weird sequence of events that maybe we could have spotted earlier," Wolff said to Autosport. "The decisions that were taken were highly unusual, but they were absolutely within the rules. "One of the Haas [cars] was parked to the right, near the entry, on...
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