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Wolff: Hamilton engine penalty 'not an absolute must'
Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff says the good health of Lewis Hamilton's current power unit means the Briton could battle on for the remainder of the season without enduring an engine grid penalty. As teams head into the final tier of their 2021 campaign, their remaining engines are slowly but surely reaching the limit of their mileage. After recently discarding the second engines of Max Verstappen and Sergio Perez due to damage, Red Bull is set to add a fourth PU to the Dutchman's pool of hardware which will trigger an inevitable grid drop. In the Mercedes camp, the team opted to allocate at Monza a fourth engine to Valtteri Bottas, which justified the Finn's pitlane start. But Wolff says...
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