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Will Lewis Hamilton have what it takes to bounce back?

“Different!” laughs Lewis Hamilton. But something is the same. The Mercedes driver is facing the media at his team’s Silverstone pre-season shakedown filming day, but the conversation is taking place via Zoom. Eco- and cost-friendly, easier to manage prying questions, better to keep things hidden.

No Formula 1 team wants stories about its new car leaking out early, so this is an understandable arrangement. But, despite the sky-high interest in the performance capabilities of the new W14, rumours nevertheless surface that things don’t go completely to plan for the new machine’s initial running…

A supposedly tricky shakedown was followed by a successful 100km filming exercise the next day, Mercedes was keen to stress. But as the first race of 2023 in Bahrain finally arrived on F1’s horizon, there was

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