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Mercedes says set-up blunders to blame for poor qualifying

Mercedes boss Toto Wolff thinks that problems setting up its cars are to blame for the team’s sub-par qualifying performance at Singapore. Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg could manage no more than fifth and sixth respectively in the Brackley squad’s worst Saturday showing of Formula 1’s hybrid era, as Sebastian Vettel swept to pole position. Asked what he thought had gone wrong, Wolff said that Hamilton and Rosberg had been plagued by grip issues all weekend, and that the team had taken “wrong junctions” when it came to set-up/ “I think it’s not the speed of the car, because a car doesn’t deteriorate from one weekend to the next with a good engine and good downforce,”...
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