A MERCEDES star was stripped of a win after failing to realise the race was over in a rarely seen incident. Pin, 20, had dominated on track throughout the weekend, claiming pole in qualifying before winning both of the weekend’s races. After taking the chequered flag, Pin’s Prema team were busy celebrating the double win on the pit wall. But because her engineers were too busy toasting her success, Pin continued to drive around the Jeddah Corniche Circuit at race speed on what should have been the cooldown lap. Pin went on to complete two full laps before the red flag was shown to stop her. Following the race Pin said a radio issue meant she kept going at race speed as she was unsure whether it was the last lap or not. Meanwhile, the next F1 race will be in Australia on March 24.

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