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Mercedes explains Hamilton's Montreal issue

In the latest edition of its Pure Pitwall, Mercedes explains the issue which compromised Lewis Hamilton in Sunday's Canadian Grand Prix. With a quality control issue meaning the German team could not run its upgraded power unit as planned, Lewis Hamilton and Valtteri Bottas had to run the same engines used in the previous six races. Already at a disadvantage therefore, with Ferrari and Renault both introducing their upgrades, Hamilton was further compromised during the race by an issue which, contrary to previous reports and speculation, was not actually engine related. 'What happened with Lewis was an entirely unrelated chassis cooling event, nothing to do with the engine itself,'...
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