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Hamilton blows chance after mistakenly hitting 'magic' switch
Lewis Hamilton says flicking a "magic" button on his Mercedes car caused him to blow his chance of an Azerbaijan GP victory, with the world champion inadvertently "switching the brakes off" and missing the first corner just as it appeared he had passed Sergio Perez at the restart. Hamilton looked to have lucked in at Baku after championship and race leader Max Verstappen crashed out, and - second on the grid for the post-red flag restart - he then got the jump on Perez off the line. Verstappen crash hands Perez win, Hamilton botches restart Pirelli suspect debris in Verstappen, Stroll tyre blow-outs But, in dramatic scenes on an extraordinary afternoon, Hamilton then...
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