British race car driver Lewis Hamilton worked for the McLaren team for several years, but he recently joined the Mercedes team. In the rush of the recent Malaysian Grand Prix, without thinking, he pulled into the pit box run by his former teammates:
"I don't know how that happened. The teams look so similar. I have been stopping in that pit box for years.
"[It's] an easy mistake and hopefully one I won't make again."
Hamilton soon realised his mistake and drove further along to his new Mercedes team pit box.
You can watch a video of the incident at the link below.
Link and Video -via Blame It on the Voices
(Photo: BBC)
the video in the link was taken down, this is a replacement
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Lewis called this errant pitting "Pulling a Button" because of this move done a few years ago
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