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Wolff admits Mercedes's stopwatch failed for Rosberg's penalty

Mercedes boss Toto Wolff has admitted that in today's German Grand Prix the team waited eight seconds before servicing Nico Rosberg's car rather than five required to serve his in-race penalty, as the team's stopwatch broke. Rosberg passed Max Verstappen's Red Bull at the hairpin on lap 28 of today's Hockenheim race, but later had to take a five-second penalty for 'forcing another car off the track' in the manouvere, to be served at his next pit stop. But observers noticed that the team waited over eight seconds before servicing the Mercedes, something Wolff said was simply down to their stopwatch breaking. 'Even in a Formula One team with all the...
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