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Mercedes ‘doing a lot of work' on starts

Mercedes will be spending this week 'doing a lot of work' on race starts after wheelspin dropped Lewis Hamilton into Kimi Raikkonen's clutches at Silverstone. Hamilton started Sunday's grand prix from pole position but lost out at the start, challenged by Sebastian Vettel and Valtteri Bottas. As a result he found himself third, one place ahead of Kimi Raikkonen. Next thing he was tagged by the Finn and dropped to P18. Although Hamilton recovered to finish second, Mercedes concede they need to work on their race starts to prevent similar incidents in the future. 'I think the first thing we need to understand is where can we improve and where can we engineer,' said motorsport boss Toto...
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