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Alfa Romeo explain cause of pit-stop blunder

Alfa Romeo have explained it was a traffic light error that caused Kimi Raikkonen to be released unsafely into Nikita Mazepin in Hungary. The chaos at the Hungarian Grand Prix presented teams with slower cars with a huge opportunity to score some big points, but Alfa Romeo were unable to do so. That is largely because Antonio Giovinazzi got a penalty for speeding in the pit-lane and Raikkonen got one for an unsafe release from the pits, with the Finn taking out Mazepin. The team's head of track engineering Xevi Pujolar has now explained that an error with their traffic lights was why he was released at such a point. 'With Kimi, with his pit stop when everyone was coming in at the same...
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