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Mercedes working on race start improvement
Mercedes is working on changes to its clutch system, following a series of bad grand prix starts. At the last four races, and despite their otherwise dominant form, Lewis Hamilton or Nico Rosberg have often struggled to get off the line efficiently. Boss Toto Wolff has declared the technology problems 'unacceptable' as they date back now to Austria and into the FIA's new race-start clampdown era in Belgium last weekend. Rosberg got a particularly bad start at Spa-Francorchamps, but he admitted he 'messed up'. 'It was also because we did another formation lap,' he explained, 'and that puts more temperature into everything and then things change.' A team engineer told Germany's Auto Motor...
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