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Ecclestone helped Mercedes fix Hamilton’s car
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Toto Wolff has revealed Bernie Ecclestone “played a huge role” in Lewis Hamilton being able to start the Russian Grand Prix from tenth on the grid yesterday. Hamilton suffered a recurrence of an MGU-H issue which had struck in China, meaning he was unable to take to the track in Q3 and qualified tenth as a result. With the cars under parc ferme restrictions overnight, Mercedes prepared Hamilton’s spare power unit to be fitted on Sunday morning and worked to ensure it replaced every item possible with the same specification in order to avoid having to start from the pit lane. With Mercedes using an updated fuel system for the first time in Russia, the team did...
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