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Hamilton: Did I leave the magic on?

'Did I leave the magic on?' is a question Lewis Hamilton asked his Mercedes team after he blew a sure podium late on in a dramatic 2021 Azerbaijan Grand Prix on Sunday. The answer of course was he did not. 'I could have sworn I turned that off,' Hamilton replied as he went straight instead of turning right into Turn 1 after he blitzed the restart of the three-lap sprint race that the race in Baku became in the end. Sniffing victory, Hamilton simply flicked the wrong switch at the wrong time and instead of slowing down the Merc went straight into the nowhere-to-turn escape road traps the errant. Game over. No matter how his team try to sugarcoat the missed brake-markers, it was a rare and...
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