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Mercedes to work through night on wing solution

Sutton Images Enlarge Mercedes will work through the night to try to fix its car for the start of testing on Wednesday morning after Lewis Hamilton suffered a high-speed accident on his first day at the wheel. Hamilton had completed 18 laps when the front wing failed at the end of Jerez's pit straight and folded under his front wheels. The car went straight on at Turn One and into the barriers, sustaining further damage to the nose and front suspension. Mercedes executive director (technical) Paddy Lowe said the accident was a setback but that the team was working hard to find a solution for Wednesday morning. "We had a rather dramatic failure of the front wing," Lowe explained....
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