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Helmut Marko claims Red Bull pressured Lewis Hamilton into engine failure

Red Bull's Helmut Marko claims the pressure applied by both Daniel Ricciardo and Max Verstappen in Malaysia forced Lewis Hamilton's power unit to fail whilst leading the race. The Briton was leading comfortably when his engine failed spectacularly, costing him 25 points and the lead of the championship. Whilst Mercedes have yet to confirm the cause, Marko suspects Hamilton was using maximum power to build a gap to the charging Bulls, and that caused the failure. 'We clearly had the upper hand [in the race]!' Marko told the official Formula 1 website. 'My guess is that we very likely forced [Hamilton] into that engine failure! 'We permanently put pressure on him, challenging...
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