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Hamilton denies accusing Red Bull of cheating

Aug.10 Lewis Hamilton has denied insinuating that Red Bull under-inflated Max Verstappen's tyres for Sunday's race at Silverstone. While Verstappen raced to victory and the two Mercedes struggled with excessive tyre problems, world champion Hamilton said on the radio: "He must have less pressure in his tyres or something." Former Red Bull driver Robert Doornbos didn't like the sound of that. "Hamilton is a really bad loser if he's going to assume that," he told Ziggo Sport. After the tyre problems - including failures - at the first Silverstone race, Pirelli reacted by increasing mandatory tyre pressures for the second. Hamilton called them "balloons" - but...
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