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Verstappen: Team told me to stop where I did
Max Verstappen says he was ordered to stop his Red Bull car where he did by his team, even though it led to a Virtual Safety Car that cost his teammate Daniel Ricciardo a shot at second place. Verstappen suffered a powertrain failure as he accelerated on to the back straight just after half distance. He chugged the car around the track at low speed, but was told to pull off and drove through a gravel trap to the side of the circuit. Although his car was next to a gap, the marshals could not get it to roll backwards. When asked if he could have stopped the car sooner, in a safer position, he replied: "I could, but the team told me to keep on going, they said there is a serious issue....
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