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How Ecclestone helped prevent Hamilton grid penalty...
Toto Wolff has revealed Lewis Hamilton could have been forced to start the Russian Grand Prix towards the back of the grid had Bernie Ecclestone not intervened to transport a necessary part from the UK to Sochi overnight. Hamilton suffered a problem with his MGU-H during qualifying in Russia, leaving him a provisional tenth on the grid pending any potential penalties for changing any components outside of the allocated pool. However, Mercedes' efforts were complicated by an upgrade made to the fuel system ahead of the race weekend, which meant it was missing certain spare parts to ensure the replacements were like-for-like as dictated by the regulations. Without this, Hamilton would be...
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