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Virtual Safety Car wrecks Verstappen’s late podium charge
Max Verstappen says the Virtual Safety Car period saw him lose vital temperature and grip with his medium tyres and halted his late race charge for a podium place at the Azerbaijan Grand Prix. After falling behind Racing Point’s Sergio Perez on the opening lap, Verstappen regained fourth place powering past the Mexican inside the opening handful of laps but the hold up put him on the backfoot chasing the podium spots. But once the Red Bull driver switched on to the medium tyres after his pit stop he began to make impressive inroads into the gap to Sebastian Vettel to give himself a shot at the podium, until a Virtual Safety Car on Lap 40 was triggered by his teammate Pierre Gasly who...
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