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Binotto plays down Mercedes ‘rocket' engine claims

Nov.16 Mattia Binotto has played down suggestions Mercedes will now race away with the 2021 title thanks to the freshly installed 'rocket' in Lewis Hamilton's car. Although Red Bull's Max Verstappen went into the Brazil weekend as the clear championship favourite, Hamilton managed even to overcome a spate of penalties with the help of a freshly-installed power unit that only now has to last until Abu Dhabi. 'It looked like the others had one gear less than Hamilton,' Dr Helmut Marko charged. 'Mercedes has succeeded in creating a masterpiece with this rocket for the decisive phase.' Ferrari team boss Binotto, however, played down the likelihood that the new engine will be a silver bullet...
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