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Wolff: Rosberg penalty compounded by ‘stopwatch failure’

©Wri2 Mercedes motorsport boss Toto Wolff has revealed that Nico Rosberg lost more time than he should have when taking his penalty at the German Grand Prix because of a “stopwatch failure”. The Hockenheim stewards sanctioned Rosberg after they deemed the Mercedes driver had forced Max Verstappen off track at the hairpin when overtaking the Red Bull. Rosberg elected to serve his five-second time penalty at his third and final pit stop but his W07 was left unattended for over eight seconds. “It was a stopwatch failure, the time thing failed,” Wolff explained. “It didn’t function like it should have. We could have also counted, one thousand and one, one thousand and two, one...
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