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Mercedes expected a ‘telling off', not a penalty
Mercedes's track engineering director Andrew Shovlin says the team only expected to get a ‘telling off' for Lewis Hamilton's practice starts. The Brit's chances of getting a 91st win were hugely hindered when he was handed a 10-second time penalty for carrying out pre-race practice starts in an undesignated area. Specifically, he did so by the pit-lane exit after being given permission by the team, feeling that there was too much rubber on the usual spot. 'In some places, there's a box that they paint on the floor, and you've got to do it in the box,' Shovlin told Motorsport.com. 'Then other places, it's kind of a general area. And often, if there's a lot of rubber, that's not going...
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