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Engineer switch helped Bottas in 2019 - Hamilton
Jan.7 Lewis Hamilton says losing a key engineer to his teammate's side of the garage hurt his performance at the start of 2019. Last year, Mercedes promoted Ricciardo Musconi - Hamilton's second engineer - to the role of primary race engineer for Valtteri Bottas. "It certainly didn't help," Hamilton, who ultimately won his sixth world championship, told Auto Motor und Sport. "You have to work hard to build a relationship of trust with your engineers, and with Bono and the other engineers we have grown into a really good team. "Ricky is a very talented engineer so it's obvious that he wants to go places, and there was an opportunity on the other car. But I must have...
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