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Hamilton explains Virtual Safety Car pit miss
Lewis Hamilton says he will work with Mercedes to understand “where we have gone wrong on both ends” after failing to pit under the Virtual Safety Car period which effectively cost him victory at the Austrian Grand Prix. After his Mercedes teammate Valtteri Bottas suffered a hydraulics failure on lap 13 it triggered a Virtual Safety Car to ensure the Finn’s car was safely removed from the Red Bull Ring circuit. Hamilton, who had been leading at the time, had the option to pit under the VSC but was not instructed to by the team’s chief strategist James Vowles but after seeing both Red Bull and Ferrari double stack their cars in the pits it quickly became clear not pitting would...
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