Hamilton has left this year's final test of Pirelli's 2017 F1 tyres Mercedes has played down reports that Lewis Hamilton is refusing to get back to work this week. In Abu Dhabi, it had been agreed that whichever Mercedes driver won the title would head to a Petronas event in Malaysia on Monday. And the other would stay in Abu Dhabi to drive Mercedes' modified 2015 test car for the Pirelli tyre test. Red Bull's Max Verstappen told Algemeen Dagblad newspaper that he was actually looking forward to trying the 2017 slicks for the first time. 'For me, the tyres are new so I'm curious,' said the Dutchman. But the German newspaper Bild claims that Hamilton, who is reportedly facing sanctions by...
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