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French Grand Prix: Hamilton dominates on a tedious afternoon

Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton powered to a dominant but tedious (polite way of saying an ultra-boring race) French Grand Prix, Round 8 of the 2019 Formula 1 World Championship, at a hot and sunny Circuit Paul Ricard in Le Castellet. While he did sound flustered over the radio once or twice during the 53 lap race, Hamilton cruised away from the start, the Briton was faultless off the line when red lights went dark before you could blink, launching the field perilously into Turn 1 but everyone was well behaved for a change and we had no first lap carbon shards. Once in the lead, the five-time F1 World Champion was simply in a class of his own as he built a lead at about half a second a lap...
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