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Hamilton’s angry radio exchange with Merc Strategist in Austrian GP

class="left relative"> Share Tweet Share Share Email Mercedes had dominated the Red Bull Ring in Spielberg since the Austrian Grand Prix returned to the F1 calendar in 2014 and that looked set to continue until a mysterious error. When Pole sitter Valtteri Bottas retire from the race due to gearbox trouble on lap 14, front-runners Red Bull and Ferrari quickly brought in both drivers for fresh tires, but the Mercedes garage did not make the same call for Lewis Hamilton. By the time he pitted on Lap 25, he re-emerged ahead of Vettel but behind both Red Bulls and Raikkonen. “That is totally on us, sorry,” an apologetic engineer told on team radio. Hamilton had to pit again on...
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