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Mercedes employee: Silverstone collision ‘exactly the right lesson’ for Verstappen
As if the collision between Max Verstappen and Sir Lewis Hamilton at last year’s British Grand Prix was not dramatic enough, another controversial comment has been unearthed, with a Mercedes staff member suggesting that the incident was necessary for him to learn. Verstappen had just taken his eighth career pole position in Silverstone by virtue of winning the sprint qualifying event the day before, and he and the 37-year-old spent much of the first lap battling for supremacy. When they reached Copse, neither of them were willing to yield, and both were determined to come out ahead, but as the Briton understeered through the turn and the 24-year-old refused to back out on the outside the...
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