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Hamilton explains magic button error on Azerbaijan GP restart
Article To news overview Lewis Hamilton has revealed that the 'magic' button on his car causes the brakes to not work properly which is why he locked up on the late-race restart of the Azerbaijan GP. The system, which Mercedes call 'magic', is a system that the drivers use to warm up the brakes under a safety car to get heat into the tyres and Hamilton's engineer Peter Bonnington said that the Mercedes driver knocked it on an upshift when he took the lead from Sergio Perez. "On the restart I think when Perez moved over towards me, I clicked a switch and it basically switches the brakes off," Hamilton told Sky Sports. "It just went straight. I had no idea that I'd even...
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