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After a wasted US Grand Prix, Hamilton will be fired up for a fight

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Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton watches as Red Bull Racing's Max Verstappen is interviewed after winning the United States Formula Grand Prix at the Circuit of the Americas.

Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton watches as Red Bull's Max Verstappen is interviewed after winning the US Grand Prix.

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Something Lewis Hamilton said on Sunday evening really struck home hard later on, once he and Charles Leclerc had had their afternoons wasted by their respective teams’ failures to set their cars’ ride heights correctly.

In the first corner in Qatar last time out, he had cut in too sharply and taken both Mercedes into the gravel on the outside after sandwiching teammate George Russell between himself and Max Verstappen.

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