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Mercedes seeking clutch solution to poor starts

Mercedes is working with parent company Daimler on hardware changes to its clutch in a bid to get on top of its troubled starts so far this year. Despite locking out the front row of the grid in Australia and Bahrain, Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg have both faced troubles getting away at the starts. In Australia, the pair of them were jumped by Sebastian Vettel and Kimi Raikkonen away from the line, while in Bahrain a poor getaway hindered Hamilton and he got caught up in a first corner incident with Valtteri Bottas. Mercedes motorsport boss Toto Wolff has revealed that the team believes the issues it faces are related to hardware problems with its clutch – and a fix is being worked on....
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