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Opinion: Why Hamilton's Baku blunders could cost him title

Despite his sluggish start to the 2016 season, Lewis Hamilton had seemed an overwhelming favourite for the title - until Baku. Lewis Hamilton has yet to lead the Formula 1 drivers' championship standings in 2016, but that particular stat seemed of little importance heading into Baku – not after he slashed Nico Rosberg's once unassailable-looking lead of 43 points to nine in a blink of an eye, with back-to-back wins. The oft-quoted stat that the driver who won the first three races of the season – and Rosberg won more than that – always became champion? That was quickly brushed aside. It was more or less back to square one, with Rosberg holding a slender points advantage to Hamilton's...
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