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Mercedes offered drivers ‘coin toss’ to assign updated front-wing
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30/05/2024 at 18:0830/05/2024 at 19:14 George Russell has revealed that Mercedes suggested that a “coin toss” decide which driver would receive the updated front wing that was introduced by the team ahead of last weekend’s Monaco Grand Prix. Unfortunately, Mercedes only had a single example of the new-spec element, which ultimately landed on Russell’s W15 after Lewis Hamilton opted out of the rather unconventional method of attribution. The lighthearted approach suggests that the performance difference between the new and older front wings was likely to be marginal, making the decision less critical. But Hamilton, ever the veteran, who had tested the new...
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