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Cooling issue, not engine problem, held Hamilton back in Canada

The Mercedes team says it didn't spare the horses in Montreal, and that it pushed their ageing power units to the absolute limit in the Canadian Grand Prix. The team had been forced to postpone introducing new power units for the race because a "quality issue" with them was discovered at the last minute. That left Lewis Hamilton and Valtteri Bottas using their old engines that had already completed six full Grand Prix race distances, while their key rivals took on new upgrades. Rather than backing off, Mercedes allowed their drivers to run their engines as hard as they had done at the season opener in Melbourne in March. "In terms of what happened in the race with Valtteri...
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