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Mercedes drivers 'not aware' that engines were turned down
Valtteri Bottas and Lewis Hamilton were unaware that their Mercedes engines were marginally turned down for Sunday's Abu Dhabi GP to safeguard against a potential MGU-K failure. Red Bull's Max Verstappen cruised to a dominant win in Formula 1's season finale at Yas Marina, with Bottas and Hamilton trailing the Dutchman by over a 15-second margin at the checkered flag. Ahead of Sunday's race, Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff alluded to MGU-K reliability concerns following several failures of the component that had recently hit Racing Point and Williams Wolff suggested that Mercedes had "taken a bit of performance out" of its engines. But that was news to Bottas and Hamilton after the...
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