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Hamilton thanks 'gentleman' Rosberg

Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton thanked team-mate Nico Rosberg 'for being a gentleman' and letting him through to help him win the Monaco Grand Prix. Rosberg struggled for pace early on and was told by Mercedes to allow Hamilton into second behind Daniel Ricciardo. A botched pit stop by Red Bull then enabled Hamilton to take a first win of 2016 and cut the drivers' title deficit to Rosberg to 24 points. "I didn't expect the points to shift in the way they have," said Hamilton. Rosberg said: "The feeling I had in the car was more painful [than having to let Hamilton by]. "It was very painful of course but easy to decide to do that." There is an agreement between the...
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