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Mercedes baffled by Hamilton's "freak" double failure

Toto Wolff believes that there is no specific reason why Lewis Hamilton has been struck twice by MGU-H failures, while the seven other drivers using Mercedes power units have not had problems. Hamilton started last in China and was not able to take part in Q3 in Russia after a repeat of the problem. “I would say what happened [on Saturday] is a freak failure,” said Wolff. “Normally F1 is a very scientific assessment process, and we've had a failure in Shanghai, which we understood. "We decided to change the parts, and here we go again, the same thing happens. “So we need to find out if we have really identified the root cause of the problem. Besides that, the car was rock...
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