Mercedes has accused Red Bull Racing’s bosses of trying to tarnish Lewis Hamilton’s name and sporting integrity during RBR's petition to review the penalty from the British Grand Prix. Hamilton was handed a 10-second time penalty for the collision with Max Verstappen at Silverstone, but Red Bull lodged a petition for the right to review the punishment because it felt it was too lenient. That petition was dismissed on Thursday after the stewards stated the alleged new evidence introduced by Red Bull was simply slides based on existing GPS data that had been available at the time, but there was a telling paragraph in the stewards decision that read: “The Stewards note, with some...
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