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Mercedes ‘on another planet' as rivals scramble

Mar.8 Ferrari team principal Frederic Vasseur summed up the Melbourne paddock's mood on Sunday morning with three words: Mercedes were 'on another planet' in qualifying, and almost nobody believes Toto Wolff's insistence that there was no sandbagging involved in the winter. The numbers were stark. Polesitter George Russell led a Mercedes one-two, with the first non-Mercedes car – Red Bull's Isack Hadjar – a full eight tenths of a second adrift. In modern Formula 1, that is a chasm. Charles Leclerc admitted the gap left him questioning his own data. 'When we talked about it on Friday, I said the gap was around half a second. Now it's eight tenths, so definitely more than I...
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