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Mercedes admits calculation bug cost Hamilton victory
Mercedes lost out to Ferrari under the Virtual Safety Car Mercedes has admitted a bug in its calculations led to Sebastian Vettel claiming victory over Lewis Hamilton in the Formula 1 Rolex Australian Grand Prix. Vettel emerged from the pits ahead of Hamilton after the Ferrari driver served his stop under Virtual Safety Car conditions. Unable to explain the scenario to Hamilton mid-race, the team has since completed an investigation into how Ferrari gained the upper hand. 'It was an offline tool that we create these delta lap times with and we found a bug in the tool that meant that it gave us the wrong number,' explained Mercedes' chief race engineer Andrew Shovlin. 'The number that we...
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