❀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 United States Grand Prix and explained why he parked up his car in an unfortunate position as gearbox gremlins f🐟orced only a second mechanic๊al retirement for Red Bull in 2016.

In an eventful afternoon for the youngster, Verstappen was running a fourth 🍨at the Circuit of the Americas having ꦑpassed Kimi Raikkonen 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 intꩲo action, Verstappen revealed he simply believed ﷽he had been asked to come into the pit lane.

"They told me to push hard the lap before so I thought that was an indication to box," he told rep൲orters 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 for his team when he pulled over in a position that would force a Virtual Safety Car, un♑intentionally 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 havi♒ng 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 tol🐻d 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 gap."

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