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Hakkinen relates to Mercedes after Singapore slump

Formula 1 world champion Mika Hakkinen says Mercedes' performance problem at the Singapore Grand Prix is perhaps not as unique as it seemed and recalls a similar incident during his career. The otherwise-dominant team's sudden slump on the floodlit streets was fuel for F1's usual conspiracy theorists, with some surmising that Pirelli may have supplied the ‘wrong tyres' as payback for the Monza pressure saga. 'I don't believe we got the wrong tyres,' Lewis Hamilton insisted on Tuesday. 'I've never heard that in F1 before.' Indeed, former two-time world champion Hakkinen says he experienced a similarly inexplicable loss of performance in the past. 'I remember I had the same type of...
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