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Mercedes Austrian GP failure not connected to upgrade

With the German team still reeling following its double DNF at the Red Bull Ring, its first technical double DNF since the introduction of the hybrid formula in 2014 - a formula it has dominated winning 66 (75%) of the 88 races since it was introduced - Mercedes technical boss James Allison has assured fans, and drivers Lewis Hamilton and Valtteri Bottas, that the failures had nothing to do with the upgrade introduced a week earlier in France and are totally unrelated to one another. 'They weren't the same failure, they were entirely different,' confirmed the Briton in the latest edition of Pure Pitwall. 'On Valtteri's car it was a hydraulics failure, starting in the power steering but...
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