Mercedes asked Valtteri Bottas to look for signs of damage to Lewis Hamilton’s car after his collision with Max Verstappen at the British Grand Prix. In the most dramatic incident of the 2021 season so far, the two World Championship rivals clipped wheels at Silverstone’s Copse corner on the opening lap and Verstappen’s Red Bull went hurtling into the barrier. There were immediate fears at Mercedes of damage to Hamilton’s car and according to Andrew Shovlin, their trackside engineering director, the best thing that could have happened was the resulting red flag. That enabled the team to fix the World Champion’s front left rim, which had been cracked in the contact, with Shovlin...
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