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Wolff: We switched party mode on in Q3 for Hamilton

Lewis Hamilton’s devastating pace on his pole-winning lap during qualifying for the Australian Grand Prix can be attributed to a ‘party mode' that the team unleashed in Q3 which left everyone in the Melbourne paddock stunned. The reigning world champion stormed to pole with a record lap of 1:21.164 seconds at Albert Park, with a gap of more than six-tenths of a second to the second placed Ferrari of Kimi Raikkonen, but the Mercedes driver denied he had gone into what his team calls ‘party mode' during his scintillating final run. Hamilton denied Mercedes had triggered a different engine mode for Q3, which has been nicknamed the ‘party mode' by the team, but was...
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