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McLaren feared soft tyre mistake on Imola restart

Sam Hall Tuesday 20 April 2021 15:23 McLaren team principal Andreas Seidl has revealed to being far from confident the gamble to put both Lando Norris and Daniel Ricciardo on soft tyres for the red-flag restart at Imola would pay off. Following a heavy crash between Valtteri Bottas and George Russell on lap 32 of the 63-lap Emilia Romagna Grand Prix, McLaren elected to take the restart on the softest of the F1 tyre compounds available. Article continues under video Only Red Bull's Sergio Perez, Yuki Tsunoda in his AlphaTauri - both of whom crashed soon after the restart - and Aston Martin's Sebastian Vettel echoed this decision. “I asked my strategy guys, [and] they were pretty confident...
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