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A blot on Hamilton’s season

n a huge warehouse across the road from Silverstone circuit, there sit some famously broken parts of modern Mercedes Formula 1 cars. Among the mammoth catalogue of almost every car part and piece of team kit the squad has produced at its Brackley base 10 miles down the A43 are scuffed sidepods from the W07s that sensationally collided on the opening lap of the 2016 Spanish Grand Prix at Barcelona. So too is the scarily scraped halo from the W12 ridden over by Max Verstappen during

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