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‘Wacky’ Hamilton-inspired F1 set-up gamble may have hurt Mercedes’ race
Mercedes suffered its fourth defeat to Red Bull in as many races at the first of two races in Austria as Max Verstappen dominated to claim a commanding victory ahead of title rival Lewis Hamilton. Speaking after the race, Mercedes head of trackside engineering Andrew Shovlin revealed that the team had explored a “fairly wacky” set-up approach that could have exacerbated its tyre degradation issues and explained the performance drop off compared to Red Bull. “We’ve had difficulties here before but often they’ve been because we’ve had insufficient cooling or last year we had an electrical loom that was degrading with vibration,” Shovlin said. “So they’re often not...
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