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Mercedes get inventive but won't be moving magic brake button

Article To news overview © Red Bull Content Pool / Getty Images Mercedes won't be moving their brake setting switch that caused Lewis Hamilton to go sailing straight on during the final restart in Baku. Hamilton had stormed into the lead at the final start but, accelerating away from the line, inadvertently hit off the 'magic' brake setting switch that moved his brake bias to the front. This resulted in him being unable to slow down properly and he fell to the back of the pack. Despite the catastrophic error, Mercedes won't be changing the design of their steering wheel. "We haven't moved it, we've just put a shroud around it just to make sure that you can't, that I can't...
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