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Driver swap cost Williams seventh place
Williams' decision to swap positions between Lance Stroll and Felipe Massa meant the team lost out to Stoffel Vandoorne in Sunday's Malaysian Grand Prix. Battling for position Massa was the first of the trio to pit with Stroll in a lap later and Vandoorne pitting a lap after the rookie. But while Williams had been hoping that their decision to pit first would hand them the undercut on the McLaren driver, it didn't work out that way. Instead Vandoorne emerged just ahead of the tussling team-mates, handed vital tenths by Williams' decision to let Stroll back ahead of Massa after the Canadian had been undercut by his team-mate. 'Since Lance, who previously had the lead, ended up behind Felipe...
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