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No more new engine parts for Hamilton: "Is unlikely"

After the first free practice session in Turkey Andrew Shovlin explained why Lewis Hamilton has been fitted with a new internal combustion engine (ICE). It will cost the Mercedes driver ten places on the grid, so it seems likely that the lead in the world championship will go back to Max Verstappen. Grid penalties at Mercedes "We are simulating all the races until the end of the year," Shovlin says to Sky Sports. "There's balance and risk of reliability issue. The thing you definitely don't want to do is fail during the race and take a penalty anyway. Then there's the performance element, because the power unit lose horsepower over their life." So why was the decision...
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