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Video: Mercedes reveals true cause of Melbourne error
Mercedes has revealed that a bug in its software caused the team to lose out to Ferrari in Sunday's Australian Grand Prix. While it was initially thought that the team's failure to put Lewis Hamilton back ahead of Sebastian Vettel when the German pitted under the Virtual Safety Car (VSC) was down to a problem with its race strategy software, it has now been revealed that in fact the problem was due to an offline tool the team uses to calculate delta times between those cars pitting and those remaining on track. 'The issue isn't really with the race strategy software that we use,' explains Andrew Shovlin, the German team's trackside engineering director, in the latest edition of its Pure...
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