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Reason faulty Mercedes pit stop: "This situation not automated in software".

Lewis Hamilton received a very severe penalty at Monza during the Italian GP; a stop & go of ten seconds had to be taken by the British rider. The reason was an illegal pit stop made by the team, while the pit entrance was closed under the yellow flag. Andrew Shovlin explains how this happened. Mercedes fault costly for Hamilton Kevin Magnussen suddenly dropped out of his Haas F1 car and was unable to reach the pit lane. The Dane did reach the entrance of the pitlane. For safety reasons, yellow flags appeared for the whole track and the entrance to the pitlane closed. Antonio Giovinazzi and Lewis Hamilton went inside anyway. The teams had misjudged the situation. In the F1 Nation podcast,...
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