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- Updated: August 27, 2016
Lewis Hamilton, Belgian GP 2016
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The F1 paddock is split over whether Lewis Hamilton can bounce back from his grid penalties to finish on the podium at Spa on Sunday.
The world champion’s points lead is under threat as he takes multiple penalties for fitting new components during the Belgian grand prix weekend.
Hamilton can expect to start last, and many have slammed F1’s penalty system under the long-life engine components rules.
Kevin Eason, writing in the Times, called the rules “absurd”, and former F1 driver David Coulthard agrees that the penalties remove “the intensity between Lewis and Nico Rosberg we had going into the break”.
Coulthard also doubts Hamilton can …
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