😼168澳洲5♉最新开奖结果:United States Grand Prix - Race results

Max Verstappen has taken responsibility for his phantom pit-stop during the Unit🔴ed States Grand Prix and explained why he parked up his car in an unfortunate position as gearbox gremlins forced only a second mechanical retirement for Red Bull in 2016.

In an eventful afternoon for the youngster, Verstappen was running a fourth at the Circuit of the Americas hav🐷ing passed Kimi Raiꦇkkonen during his second stint, only to pull into the pit-lane without having been asked to do so.

Arriving to his box with mechanics jumping into action, Verstappen revealed he simply believed he had been asked to come into th💃e pit lane.

"They told me to push hard the lap before 💛so I thought that was an indication to box," he told reporters after the race. "So I drove into the pit lane and suddenly realised they🐻 didn't box me. That was definitely my fault and not very clever, but it didn't make any difference.

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With Verstappen's race ending only a few laps later when he suffered a gearbox failure, the Dutchman caused more headaches foꦯr his team when he pulled over in a position that would force a Virtual Safety Car, unintentionally hampering his team-mate Daniel Ricciardo in his fight for second with Nico Rosberg.

However, Verstappen says it was the team urging him to continue before 🎉telling him to pull over, only to suffer a further issue with the car that would prevent it from being rolled back. With the car having to be removed by crane, the VSC was called, allowing Mercedes a 'free' stop to get Rosberg ahead of Ricciardo.

"The team told me to keep on going, I said there was a serious issue and at one point they told me to stop 'over there'. It was in neutral and then the car got stuck, then you✨ can press the button on the top but it didn't work. Otherwise you could just push the car into the ga🍌p."

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