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Hamilton denies Sainz's suspicion of 'typical Mercedes games'

Mercedes does not seem to be going through the F1 test days without problems. In Barcelona they suffered from porpoising and the problems do not seem to have been solved yet in Bahrain. Lewis Hamilton denies that the team is deliberately sandbagging. Sainz indicated during the fifth F1 test day, the second test day in Bahrain, that he sees through Mercedes' game. The Ferrari driver calls it a typical Mercedes strategy to pretend to be slower than they actually are during the winter tests. The so-called sandbagging is denied by the team's number one and seven-time world champion Hamilton. The Briton says that already the moments of oversteer show enough. To The-Race.com Hamilton, in fact,...
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