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Mercedes overjoyed despite first power unit failure of the year: "Moving to see"
- GPblog.com
Mercedes has had an absolutely superb year, even by their high standards. Out of the last ten races, they have won nine of them. However, the team weren't totally satisfied with the result due to Valtteri Bottas' retirement.
"Another really impressive win from Lewis and it's incredible that he's equalled Michael's colossal tally of race wins," Andrew Shovlin said in the team's retrospective. "Michael has many good friends within the team, and it was very moving to see Mick and the family mark the occasion by giving Lewis one of Michael's helmets."
Probably not a new engine for Bottas
Valtteri Bottas, on the other hand, retired for the first time this season. "On the restart he was losing power and we couldn't recover the situation. So, we retired the car. We're still looking into the problem, but the early indications are that it's an electronic issue rather than a hardware issue," said Shovlin.