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Mercedes find bug that robbed Hamilton of victory
Formula One world champions Mercedes have found the computer bug that cost Lewis Hamilton victory at the season-opening Australian Grand Prix and taken steps to ensure it does not happen again. Trackside engineering director Andrew Shovlin said in a debrief on the Mercedes website http://www.mercedesamgf1.com that the problem was not what had been originally suspected after Sunday's season-opening race in Melbourne. "The issue isn't actually with the race strategy software that we use," he said. "It was an offline tool... and we found a bug in that tool that meant that it gave us the wrong number." Shovlin explained that the tool was used to create delta lap times, in...
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