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Exactly what went wrong at the Mercedes double pit stop?

Mercedes was on its way to an easy one-two victory in Bahrain when a double pit stop during the safety car went completely wrong. Andrew Shovlin of Mercedes explains exactly what went wrong in the team's press release. "The pitstop issues were linked to the way our radio system handles the priorities of messages which caught us out in a big way. As the safety car came out, we were calling for the crew to be ready, and for the tyres for each car to come into the pitlane." Read more Wolff: 'Hamilton won't rejoice young upcoming driver in his car' "At the time that message was going out, another radio message for a very brief period prevented one of the key messages...
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