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Hamilton's 'wacky' set-up gamble fails to pay off
Mercedes head of trackside operations, Andrew Shovlin has admitted that a 'wacky' gamble on set-up for Lewis Hamilton in the Styrian Grand Prix essentially backfired. Following his defeat in France, Hamilton spent time in the Mercedes simulator at Brackley as he and his team sought to get their championship bids back on track. The team also came up with a new approach to set-up, which, in light of the fact that Hamilton finished 35s down on Verstappen, albeit having made a second stop for tyres, clearly didn't work. 'We were exploring a fairly wacky direction with the set-up,' explains Shovlin, 'a radical approach which I think was maybe a bit better on a single lap. 'The question that...
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