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A safety car in the Azerbaijan Grand Prix came at exactly the wrong time for Max Verstappen. Mark Hughes explains how the stoppage played into his team-mate’s hands
Nyck de Vries’ AlphaTauri is out of the Azerbaijan Grand Prix but race control delayed the safety car.
Max Verstappen was called into the pit
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Strategically, the Azerbaijan Grand Prix followed a very similar pattern to that of the previous race in Australia in that an early safety car within a one-stop race made for conflicted decisions upon the various team pitwalls. It had a profound effect on the way the race in Baku played out between the two Red Bull drivers at the head of the field, but maybe not the outcome.