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Misunderstanding led to team order refusal - Vettel
Daniel Ricciardo (left) was waved past his team-mate for the second race in a row Getty Images Enlarge Sebastian Vettel admitted a misunderstanding of Daniel Ricciardo's pit strategy led him to initially refuse Red Bull's request to move over for his team-mate in China. On lap 24 Ricciardo closed up on Vettel, who received a message from the pit wall to let his team-mate through, only to ask in reply which tyres his team-mate was on. After being told by race engineer Guillaume Roquelin that Ricciardo was on also on primes, but stopped later than him, Vettel simply said "tough luck" in reply. A second message from the pit wall told Vettel he was on a different pit strategy to...
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