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What happened to Hamilton in Russia?

  Even triple-world champions have their off-days. That was the take-away from a dismal Russian GP weekend for Lewis Hamilton, the Briton finishing a distant fourth behind both Ferraris and teammate Valtteri Bottas. For the first time in a long time, he simply didn’t have the pace to keep up – he finished over half a second off in qualifying, and 36 seconds off in the race, so what on earth happened? To put it simply, he never got his setup right, and while it’s easy to say now, after Friday practice perhaps we should’ve seen this coming. Mercedes struggled from the get-go, their advantage on a supposed “power track” negated by their issues with getting the tyre...
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