Mercedes will have a significant car advantage there and he wants a nice clean weekend, focussed on the job of getting pole, the win and the championship lead back; no distractions. …. and stating the championship situation was also a serious consideration…according to Hughes the stewards also apparently did not choose to review tire loading data to help explain the sawing of the wheel, and ignored the suspicious act of reversing towards oncoming cars. …

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Hamilton makes up with Rosberg – long term fix or elastoplast …