Racing Point F1 tech boss Andy Green says that the team’s new-spec 2019 shares certain parts and assemblies with its predecessor as a result of the uncertainty that surrounded the team last summer.

The former Force India entity was in the midst of fighting for its survival when the design process for its 2019 car was initiated.

With funds at a shortage but facing timing constraints, Green and his department had no other choice but to begin their future car’s development in a cost-effective mode.

“The new car uses certain parts and assemblies from last year’s car and the 2018 chassis has been modified to suit, so it needed to be re-homologated,” said Green.

“This was one of the big decisions we had to take early on, back in July when the team’s future was still uncertain.

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“We had to find the most cost-effective way to keep development running throughout last year and decisions were made to use as much of the 2018 car as we possibly could.

“What we had to avoid was stopping development for two months while we waited to understand what the future held, as that would have been a significant blow to our 2019 competitiveness.

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“Looking back, we know it was a good call.”

With adequate funding now in place, Racing Point will develop its RP19 at a healthy pace, and Green even plans a raft of upgrades implemented early on.

“Expect quite a plain, ‘vanilla’ car to start with as we produced what we believe is a car capable of delivering what we need to achieve in Barcelona – working on reliability and understanding the tyres,” said the British engineer.

“We did what we needed to get the car out for launch, but in the background we have always been working on the car for the first race, trying to find the maximum performance we can and bring to Melbourne.

“We are planning to update the car for the first race and probably the two or three races after that.

“They’ll be fairly significant changes ahead of another big step forward in Barcelona, in race five.

“Hopefully, by the time we get to Europe we will have a decent platform to be working with and developing.”

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BATON ROUGE, La. — 

Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards has stunned Republicans again, narrowly winning a second term Saturday as the Deep South’s only Democratic governor and handing President Trump another gubernatorial loss this month.

In the heart of Trump country, the moderate Edwards cobbled together enough cross-party support with his focus on bipartisan, state-specific issues to defeat Republican businessman Eddie Rispone.

Coming after a GOP incumbent’s defeat in the Kentucky governor’s race and the party’s loss of control of Virginia’s Legislature on Nov. 5, the Louisiana result seems certain to rattle Republicans as they head into the 2020 presidential election. Trump fought to return the seat to the GOP, making three trips to Louisiana to rally against Edwards.

The president’s intense attention motivated not only conservative Republicans, but also powered a surge in anti-Trump and black voter turnout that helped the incumbent.

Democrats who argue that nominating a moderate presidential candidate is the best approach to beat Trump are certain to point to Louisiana’s race as bolstering their case. Edwards, a West Point graduate, opposes gun restrictions, signed one of the nation’s strictest abortion bans and dismissed the impeachment effort as a distraction.

Still, while Rispone’s loss raises questions about the strength of Trump’s coattails, its relevance to his reelection chances are less clear. Louisiana is expected to easily back Trump next year, and Edwards’ views in many ways are out of step with his own party.

In the final days as polls showed Edwards with momentum, national Republicans beefed up assistance for Rispone. That wasn’t enough to boost the GOP contender, who wasn’t among the top-tier candidates Republican leaders hoped would challenge Edwards as they sought to prove that the Democrat’s long-shot victory in 2015 was a fluke.

Rispone is a longtime political donor who was little-known when he launched his campaign, had ties to unpopular former Gov. Bobby Jindal and offered few details about his agenda. Edwards also proved to be a formidable candidate, with a record of achievements.

Working with the majority Republican Legislature, Edwards stabilized state finances with a package of tax increases, ending the deficit-riddled years of Jindal. New money paid for investments in public colleges and the first statewide teacher raise in a decade.

Edwards expanded Louisiana’s Medicaid program, lowering the state’s uninsured rate below the national average. A bipartisan criminal sentencing law rewrite he championed ended Louisiana’s tenure as the nation’s top jailer.

Rispone, the 70-year-old owner of a Baton Rouge industrial contracting company, hitched his candidacy to Trump, introducing himself to voters in ads that focused on support for the president in a state Trump won by 20 percentage points.

But the 53-year-old Edwards, a former state lawmaker and former Army Ranger from rural Tangipahoa Parish, reminded voters that he’s a Louisiana Democrat, with political views that sometimes don’t match those of his party’s leaders.

“They talk about I’m some sort of a radical liberal. The people of Louisiana know better than that. I am squarely in the middle of the political spectrum,” Edwards said. “That hasn’t changed, and that’s the way we’ve been governing.”

Rispone framed himself in the mold of Trump, describing himself as a “conservative outsider” whose business acumen would help solve the state’s problems.

“We want Louisiana to be No. 1 in the South when it comes to jobs and opportunity. We have to do something different,” Rispone said. “We can do for Louisiana what President Trump has done for the nation.”

Rispone poured more than $12 million of his own money into the race. But he had trouble drawing some of the primary vote that went to Republican U.S. Rep. Ralph Abraham, after harshly attacking Abraham in ads as he sought to reach the runoff.

Rispone also avoided many traditional public events attended by Louisiana gubernatorial candidates and sidestepped questions about his plans when taking office. He promised tax cuts, without saying where he’d shrink spending, and he pledged a constitutional convention, without detailing what he wanted to rewrite.

Both parties spent millions on attack ads and get-out-the-vote work, on top of at least $36 million spent by candidates.

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Former Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick, the newest candidate in the 2020 race, speaks to reporters Saturday. 

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Presidential candidates Amy Klobuchar and Pete Buttigieg greet each other after Klobucher addressed the Women’s Caucus. 

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Kamala Harris hugs Long Beach Mayor Robert Garcia after Garcia introduced her during a campaign stop at Portuguese Bend Distilling on Friday. 

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California Lt. Gov. Eleni Kounalakis, left, and presidential candidate Amy Klobuchar chat at the Women’s Caucus gathering Saturday. 

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Presidential candidate Marianne Williamson addresses the convention. 

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John Delaney addresses reporters Saturday. 

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Tom Steyer greets fellow presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg before both spoke at the Women’s Caucus on Saturday. 

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Deval Patrick prepares to address the convention.  

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South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg is greeted by L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti and others after he spoke at the Women’s Caucus. 

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Rep. Adam B. Schiff, who is leading the House impeachment inquiry, received an enthusiastic welcome at the Democratic convention in Long Beach.  

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A convention-goer displays a message during the Democratic gathering in Long Beach.  

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The shifting Democratic presidential primary was on full display in California on Saturday, with the newest candidate making his first appearance in front of a large group of voters and a home-state senator arguing that her campaign remains vibrant despite her plummet in the polls.

The main draw for many of the 12 White House hopefuls at the state party gathering was an afternoon forum put on by Univision, but much of the action took place elsewhere at the sprawling Long Beach convention center and at nearby restaurants and bars.

Former Gov. Deval Patrick of Massachusetts, who surprised the Democratic field with his late entry into the presidential race on Thursday, said his experience leading his state proved that he has the skills to right the nation in the aftermath of President Trump.

“I am not running, my friends, to be president of the Democrats. I am running to be president of the United States,” he told thousands of delegates and guests at the state party convention. “There’s a difference. I’m not talking about a moderate agenda. This is no time for a moderate agenda. I’m talking about being woke, while leaving room for the still waking.”

Some in the audience chatted through his remarks, and others clapped politely once he finished.

The politician who drew one of the most enthusiastic responses Saturday is not running for the Oval Office, but is leading the impeachment inquiry into Trump — Rep. Adam B. Schiff of Burbank.

“You will forgive me if I’m a bit exhausted. It’s been an eventful week,” he said. “Our democracy is at risk, more so now than any time in my life. … The greatest threat to our democracy comes from within: a president without ethical compass. There is nothing more dangerous than an unethical president who believes he is above the law.”

The gathering took place at the end of a week in which the House launched public impeachment hearings and just over 100 days before California’s March 3 primary. Nearly 500 delegates are at stake, prompting candidates to pay more consideration to the state’s voters than in years past when the primary came late in the election cycle.

“It’s nice to have more attention,” said Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, who said he may endorse a candidate before the primary. “I’ll take that as a victory, but we’ll never be Iowa.”

California Sen. Kamala Harris faced great scrutiny over the weekend about her slide in the polls — she came in at 3% in an Iowa poll released Saturday, and at 1% in a recent New Hampshire poll. Convention attendees whispered about stories of dysfunction and tension on her campaign team, reports that Harris denied.

“I am very, very supportive of my campaign, of the people who are working it,” she told reporters. “They’ve done great work, which has gotten us to the point where we are today. And we are focused on what we need to do to move forward.”

Her supporters turned out in force, chanting, “I don’t know what you’ve been told, Kamala is strong and bold,” outside the convention hall and cheering her on as she spoke at a restaurant and then later at a gay bar.

Harris’ political backers argued that she still has a path to victory.

“The only poll that counts is on election day,” Gov. Gavin Newsom told reporters, adding that he planned to campaign for Harris in Iowa.

Harris was among the top eight candidates who spoke at the Univision forum on Saturday. Former Vice President Joe Biden and Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren skipped the event, drawing ire from state party leaders and the moderators of the event. Moderator Jorge Ramos asked Harris if the pair were taking the Latino vote for granted.

“I’m here,” Harris said. “I think you have to judge people by their conduct and their actions.”

Ramos also pressed Harris and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders to declare that the Obama administration, of which Biden was part, made a mistake by deporting more than 3 million people. Harris, an early Obama backer, would not say whether his administration’s deportation policy was a mistake.

But she noted that as California’s attorney general, she disagreed with an Obama-era Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainer policy and told the state’s law enforcement agencies that it was not mandatory.

Sanders said the deportations were a mistake, then pivoted to Trump.

“What I’m going to tell you is in fact what the American people want, and they want to stop this ugly demonization of the immigrant community and the racism that is coming from the White House,” Sanders said, pledging that on Day 1 of his presidency he would reestablish legal status for 1.8 million “Dreamers,” young people who were brought to the U.S. illegally as children, and their parents.

One of the more moving moments of the forum was when Lorena Pimentel de Salazar spoke about her 13-year-old daughter, who was killed in the Gilroy Garlic Festival shooting. In Spanish, she told Sen. Cory Booker of her daughter’s love of animals and asked what he would do to reduce gun violence. Booker responded, at first in Spanish, then switched to English.

“What she’s saying here is not exceptional,” he said, turning to the crowd. “It is personal. I am tired of seeing the No. 1 cause of death for black and brown children in this country is murder. And under my leadership, it will stop.”

South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg, who spoke shortly before a new poll showed him leading in Iowa, defended his more centrist approach that has been criticized by some liberals.

“I also believe that being bold and having good ideas should not be measured by how many people you alienate,” he said. Some of his proposals “are not as extreme as some of the others. But they would still make me the most progressive president of my lifetime.”

Some of the questions were softballs — entrepreneur Andrew Yang was asked about the automation of farm work, allowing him to raise the issue of universal basic income, the foundation of his campaign. Billionaire environmentalist Tom Steyer was asked about climate change, an issue on which he has spent tens of millions of dollars.

Ramos asked Steyer about the crosses he draws in ink on the top of his left hand. The candidate said he drew a cross every day “to remind myself to tell the truth no matter what they do to you.”

Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar was among the candidates who spoke to the women’s caucus Saturday morning, saying that there was no need to ask if a woman could beat Trump because “Nancy Pelosi does it every day.”

Garcetti watched the weekend’s spectacle from the sidelines, and when asked whether he was glad he decided not to run, said, “Absolutely.”

“I wouldn’t want to have been in Iowa when the fires were right here and vice versa. Imagine if I was here doing my job as I’m missing the most important pork fry in Iowa,” he said. “No, like not an instant of regret.”

Times staff writer Melissa Gomez contributed to this report.

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WASHINGTON — 

When the impeachment inquiry opened in September, it centered on a single question: Did President Trump block U.S. military aid to muscle Ukraine into investigating Joe Biden and others, and risk national security to boost his reelection campaign?

The evidence is steadily mounting that he did.

Now, the scandal is expanding.

It has intersected with the federal prosecution of two Soviet-born associates of Trump’s buccaneering personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, for allegedly funneling Russian money into a U.S. political campaign.

It has revealed further Russian influence in our politics, the exploitation of Moscow-style disinformation to take down a respected U.S. ambassador and smear a potential Democratic rival to Trump.

Most important, it has begun to feature a shadowy figure who always seems to be just offstage: Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Russia was repeatedly invoked on Friday by Marie Yovanovitch, the former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, as she recounted Giuliani’s successful campaign to get her ousted from Kyiv — apparently because her anti-corruption efforts there got in the way of his clients’ business.

“How is it that foreign corrupt interests could manipulate our government?” she asked during a day of riveting testimony before the House Intelligence Committee. “Which country’s interests are served when the very corrupt behavior we have been criticizing is allowed to prevail?”

She answered her own question.

“Such conduct undermines the U.S. … and widens the playing field for autocrats like President Putin,” she said.

This week, Putin will move onto center stage when the House committee questions Fiona Hill, a former CIA analyst who worked inside the Trump White House for more than two years.

Hill is a leading authority on Putin. She was hired by Trump’s first national security advisor, Michael Flynn, and kept on by Flynn’s successors, H.R. McMaster and John Bolton. All three quit or were pushed out.

But Hill remained the White House’s top Putinologist until she resigned in July. She’s not a “never Trumper.”

And what she has to say is chilling.

“Corruption is our Achilles’ heel,” she told the House committee in her closed-door deposition last month. “Corruption is the way President Putin and other nefarious actors, be they from China, Iran or North Korea, access our system.”

Putin has been trying to compromise influential Americans since the 1970s, when he began his KGB career as a case officer in Leningrad, she said.

She did not charge that Putin had succeeded in compromising Trump. But she said Trump’s history as a businessman who spent years trying to land a real estate project in Moscow put him in Putin’s sights long ago.

“It’s what Putin did,” she said. “They went after American businessmen and set up sting operations.”

We know that Russian intelligence escalated its operations on U.S. soil during the 2016 election. But Hill says Putin not only targeted Trump, but “was targeting all of the other campaigns as well.”

“Compromising material was being collected on a whole range of individuals,” she said. “It was most definitely being collected on [Hillary] Clinton.”

Her larger point is clear. We have failed to adequately protect our political system by using voting systems that are vulnerable to hacking, and by allowing foreign disinformation to corrupt our social media and political debates.

“By not cleaning up our act, [we] have given them the doors which they can walk through and mess up our system,” she told the House committee. “The Russians can’t exploit corruption if there’s not corruption.”

This will be an unwelcome message for Trump, who says Ukraine interfered in the 2016 election to help Clinton. No evidence of that hallucinatory claim has emerged.

Instead, the U.S. intelligence community and a special counsel investigation concluded that Putin authorized the hacking of Democratic Party computers and conducted a massive disinformation operation on social media, all to help Trump.

Trump has dismissed the overwhelming evidence of Russian meddling. Instead, he has embraced the bizarre alternative narrative that someone in Ukraine is hiding a computer server containing all the evidence.

That, says Hill, is “a conspiracy theory.”

Even worse, it’s a conspiracy theory that serves the interests of Putin, who wants to drive a wedge between the U.S. and Ukraine, a U.S. ally that is fighting a Russian-backed insurgency.

“Russia can take advantage of this,” Hill said. “Putin’s whole schtick since 2016 has been, ‘We didn’t do it … Pin it on whoever.’ ”

Ever since his election, Trump has insisted that he won the White House fair and square and that charges of foreign meddling on his behalf were invented by his enemies.

His actions toward Russia have been contradictory and baffling. Trump has been indulgent, even deferential toward Putin, while official U.S. policy considers Russia one of America’s main adversaries.

No one has determined whether the president’s fawning relationship with Putin is driven by his desire to shake off the charge that he was put in office with the Kremlin’s help, or something more sinister.

But if the question is who has benefited from Trump’s actions, in Ukraine and elsewhere, the answer has been depressingly constant: Vladimir Putin.

The debut of the Clippers’ superstar duo never materialized Saturday.

Instead, fans saw a one-man show.

With Kawhi Leonard absent for his fourth game of the season, Paul George turned in a historic performance in his first home game as a Clipper, scoring 37 points in 20 minutes in his team’s 150-101 victory over Atlanta at Staples Center.

It ended a two-game losing streak and provided further evidence that George, who hadn’t played in 207 days until he scored 33 points in 24 minutes during his season debut Thursday, is already far along in his progression back to the court after offseason surgery on both shoulders. George called Thursday’s performance “terrible,” in part because it occurred during a loss in New Orleans.

He didn’t grade Saturday’s effort so critically.

No player in NBA history has scored more points in less than 21 minutes. And no Clippers victory has ever come by a larger margin.

“I could get used to this,” George said in a postgame television interview.

When George went to the bench with 8:07 remaining in the third quarter, he’d already scored 34 points in his first 18 minutes. The Clippers (8-5) were already leading by double digits and there was no need for an encore. During two free-throw attempts midway through the second quarter, fans chanted “6-6-1!” — the number for the area code of Palmdale, where George grew up.

But then, during the break between the third and fourth quarters, George wiped his shiny, silver sneakers on a traction pad at the scorer’s table and returned to the court.

Within 18 seconds, George caught a pass from JaMychal Green and drilled a three-pointer from 28 feet, and as he jogged backward on defense, he shrugged while rapper Quavo cheered from a courtside seat. Four possessions later, he provided an emphatic coda on his first home game as a Clipper when he sprinted ahead of Atlanta’s defense in transition and bounced a pass off the backboard that was caught and dunked by teammate Montrezl Harrell.

When George finally checked out for good shortly thereafter, Hall of Famer Jerry West, a Clippers advisor, was among the fans who rose to applaud.

“It may be rare as far as him not doing it in 20 minutes,” said Patrick Patterson, who knows George’s game well, having played with him since 2017. “But his ability to go out and dominate, to take over a game, score at will, play solid defensively, attack, hit tough shots, hit open shots, get everyone involved, that’s just who he is.”

Defensively, George was caught on a screen and crossed over and scored on — all during a short stretch in the second quarter. That was not surprising for coach Doc Rivers, who called defense one of the toughest things for players to recover after a long layoff.

What did stun the coach was what he called George’s mastery of the offense’s nuances, such as a play when George ran back for a handoff rather than curl around a screen because he’d seen his defender had given him too much space.

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Clippers guard Lou Williams pulls up for a jumper in front of Atlanta Hawks center Alex Len (25) during the first half of the Clippers’ 150-101 victory Saturday at Staples Center. 

(Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)

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Clippers guard Terance Mann (14) and teammate Lou Williams (23) double-team Atlanta Hawks center Alex Len during the second half of the Clippers’ 150-101 victory Saturday at Staples Center. 

(Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)

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Clippers center Ivica Zubac, right, pressures Atlanta Hawks center Damian Jones during the second half of the Clippers’ 150-101 victory Saturday at Staples Center. 

(Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)

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Clippers guard Lou Williams (23) and teammates Jerome Robinson (1) and Montrezl Harrell (5) react to a call during the Clippers’ 150-101 victory over the Atlanta Hawks at Staples Center on Saturday. 

(Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)

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Clippers center Ivica Zubac (40) blocks a shot by Atlanta Hawks guard Trae Young (11) during the second half of the Clippers’ 150-101 victory Saturday at Staples Center. 

(Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)

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Clippers forward Montrezl Harrell (5) and teammate JaMychal Green (4) strip the ball from Atlanta Hawks forward Bruno Fernando during the second half of the Clippers’ 150-101 victory Saturday at Staples Center. 

(Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)

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Clippers forward Paul George (13) is fouled by Atlanta Hawks center Damian Jones (30) as he drives to the basket during the second half of the Clippers’ 150-101 victory Saturday at Staples Center. 

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Clippers forward Paul George, right, drives hard to the basket against Atlanta Hawks forward De’Andre Hunter during the Clippers’ 150-101 victory at Staples Center on Saturday. 

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Clippers forward JaMychal Green (4) jostles for a rebound against Atlanta Hawks forward Bruno Fernando (24) during the first half of the Clippers’ 150-101 victory Saturday at Staples Center. 

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Clippers center Ivica Zubac (40) dunks our Atlanta Hawks forward Jabari Parker (5) during the first half of the Clippers’ 150-101 victory Saturday at Staples Center. 

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Clippers forward Montrezl Harrell (5) plays tight defense on Atlanta Hawks center Alex Len during the first half of the Clippers’ 150-101 victory Saturday at Staples Center. 

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Atlanta Hawks center Alex Len (25) dunks over Clippers center Ivica Zubac (40) during the first half of the Clippers’ 150-101 victory Saturday at Staples Center. 

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Clippers forward Paul George, left, reacts after being fouled by Atlanta Hawks center Damian Jones (30) during the second half of the Clippers’ 150-101 victory at Staples Center on Saturday. 

(Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)

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Clippers guard Terance Mann (14) tries to break up a pass between Atlanta Hawks teammates DeAndre’ Bembry (95) and forward Jabari Parker (5) during the first half of the Clippers’ 150-101 victory Saturday at Staples Center. 

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Clippers center Ivica Zubac (40) tries to block a shot by Atlanta Hawks guard Trae Young during the first half of the Clippers’ 150-101 victory at Staples Center on Saturday. 

(Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)

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Clippers coach Doc Rivers has a chuckle during his team’s 150-101 rout of the Atlanta Hawks at Staples Center on Saturday. 

(Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)

“He’s taking advantage of our offense like he’s been playing the offense for five years,” Rivers said. “He did three or four things tonight that you can’t know how to do it, in what we’re running, unless you’ve been running it. Even Lou [Williams] said it once, ‘Wow, that’s tricky.’”

Williams added 25 points off the bench and Jerome Robinson scored a career-high 21 points.

Leonard did not play because of a left knee contusion suffered Wednesday after knocking knees against Houston — a different injury than the ongoing tendon issue in the same knee that has been the basis for his three previous absences this season. Rivers said he was not concerned about the contusion being anything more than a “day-to-day” injury.

Leonard and George have yet to play in the same lineup even in practice. Asked whether George and Leonard would play together Monday, against Oklahoma City, for the first time, Rivers initially said he didn’t know but added, “most likely.”

Starting guard Patrick Beverley missed his second consecutive game, as well, with an injured left calf, and another starting guard, Landry Shamet watched in street clothes with the help of a crutch, the result of a sprained ankle he suffered four days before.

Highlights from the Clippers’ 150-101 victory over the Atlanta Hawks at Staples Center on Saturday.

While the Clippers’ star went off, the Hawks’ struggled.

Trae Young was called “amazing” by Rivers before tipoff for a sophomore season that has seen the 6-foot-1 guard average huge numbers — 27.3 points and 9.1 assists, including 32 points and 11.5 assists in his last four entering Saturday.

By halftime, however, Young had made only two of his first 11 field goals and he finished with 20 points on four-of-16 shooting, with six assists and five rebounds. Atlanta (4-8) never recovered without Young’s production. He couldn’t find the room to operate.

George had no such trouble, however.

“I think he knows I have him on a time limit,” Rivers said, “and he’s trying to get them all in.”

Asked about the key to his scoring in bunches so far, George offered a deadpan response.

“New shoulders,” he said.