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Hamilton slams penalties: 'They're trying to stop me'

Lewis Hamilton has slammed his penalties at the Russian GP as "ridiculous" and claims Formula 1 stewards are "trying to stop me" after finishing third behind Valtteri Bottas and Max Verstappen on Sunday. Hamilton was handed two separate in-race 5s penalties in Sochi for a pre-race infraction, with the Englishman penalised for carrying out practice starts outside of the designated area in the pit-lane set out by the FIA. The combined 10s penalty was confirmed during the race and pole-sitter Hamilton, after angrily reacting to the news on team radio, took it during his first pit-stop and then finished a long way behind Bottas and Verstappen. Bottas wins Russian GP after...
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