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Mercedes urged not to be distracted by ‘relatively easy’ Verstappen penalty

Andrew Shovlin wants Mercedes to not dwell on recent results and instead focus ahead to this weekend's Russian Grand Prix, where rival Max Verstappen will begin on the backfoot with a three-place grid penalty. Verstappen was penalized for causing a collision with Lewis Hamilton in the Italian Grand Prix, an incident that saw both drivers retire from the race. The stewards handed the championship leader a three-place grid penalty for this weekend’s event at Sochi and Mercedes trackside engineering director Shovlin urged his team to not get overly affected if Verstappen quickly negates it. “We obviously felt strongly that Lewis had done absolutely nothing wrong and that Max was...
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