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Mercedes pit stop error a ‘colossal f*** up' – Wolff

Mercedes’ Team Principal Toto Wolff has described his squad’s race-damaging pit stop sequence in Bahrain as a “colossal f*** up”. With a Safety Car deployed following a spin for Williams’ Jack Aitken, Mercedes brought George Russel and Valtteri Bottas into the pit lane for fresh tyres. However, in the confusion, Russell was fitted with part of Bottas’ tyre allocation and had mixed compounds on his car, forcing him to box again on the following lap. The resulting uncertainty that followed saw a pit stop of over 27 seconds for Bottas, leading to both Mercedes cars dropping off the podium, after running first and second for much of the grand prix. “Overall for us it was a...
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