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Mercedes: Baku dummy tactic in qualifying was 'enormous risk'
Mercedes strategist James Vowles admitted that the team's 'dummy start' tactic in qualifying in Baku put both Lewis Hamilton and Valtteri Bottas at risk of missing their final flyer. In a bid to benefit from the perfect slipstream on their final run in the Saturday shootout, Bottas and Hamilton pulled over at the exit of the pitlane where the pair also "dummied" Ferrari rival Sebastian Vettel - the first driver to follow the Silver Arrows pair out of the pitlane - into believing they were going to undertake a practice start. Mercedes boss Toto Wolff later revealed that the move had been planned, and had forced Vettel to run on his own without the benefit of a tow. That stratagem...
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