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The Formula One title fight is an absolute knife fight at the top. George Russell has shed ninety points to Max Verstappen across just five grands prix, and with three rounds left, Mercedes is now weighing whether to throw the full weight of the team behind Russell to secure a one-two in the championship. Verstappen sits at two hundred seventy nine points, Russell at two hundred sixty two, Hamilton at two hundred sixty one — this thing is razor thin.
And Hamilton's own weekend in Brazil was a gut punch. He clawed his way from twentieth on the grid all the way through the field, only to spin late in the race and tumble back to ninth. He went to Instagram afterward calling it devastating, and honestly, that word does the job. A drive that deserved so much more, undone in the final laps at Interlagos.
Shifting to the NFL, the trade deadline is live and the Green Bay Packers are firmly in buyer mode. Coming off a forty five to twenty seven demolition of New England, Green Bay has real momentum and real needs — with Jonathan Taylor of the Indianapolis Colts among the names drawing serious attention as a potential difference-maker for this offense.
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