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Mercedes was afraid of Verstappen's undercut: "Then he would have won"

Max Verstappen could have taken second place if we can believe Toto Wolff of Mercedes. For a moment there was the opportunity to go for an undercut, but Red Bull Racing did not seize that opportunity. Wolff goes on to say that there has been some miscommunication with both drivers about when a more aggressive engine position could be used. "At one point we were only 1.2 seconds ahead of Max," says Wolff at Sky Sports. The Austrian is happy that Red Bull didn't opt for that in the end. "An undercut would have yielded a two-second advantage, so he would have won a position. Then he would probably have been able to fight Hamilton. Lewis would probably have come in if that...
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