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Bernie ‘played a huge role’ in Hamilton’s engine repair

Bernie ‘played a huge role' in Hamilton's engine repair Mercedes F1 team boss Toto Wolff has revealed that, F1 boss Bernie Ecclestone “played a huge role” in Lewis Hamilton’s power-unit problem fixing, and it’s give to start the Russian GP from tenth on the grid yesterday. In Russia Hamilton missed the qualifying Q3 following MGU-H issue and its forcing him to start tenth. Following the engine issue, Silver Arrows replaced every engine component possible with the same specification in order to avoid more grid penalty. And Mercedes were required to fly out a brand new fuel system on a chartered flight from the UK, which arrived in the early hours of Sunday morning. Wolff says...
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