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Toto Wolff says it is clear what Mercedes “should have done” after being left to rue what could have been during F1 qualifying at the Sao Paulo Grand Prix.
Lewis Hamilton and George Russell had to settle for fifth and sixth place on the Interlagos grid, almost eight tenths of a second behind Max Verstappen. They were also outperformed by the Aston Martin cars. Mercedes team principal Wolff admitted that they should have followed Verstappen’s tactic of setting a quick lap before heavy rain interrupted qualifying. He acknowledged that the small differences in outlaps and temperatures had a significant impact. Wolff believed that Mercedes could have qualified anywhere between 1st and 8th if they had executed the right strategy. He also noted that McLaren made a similar mistake but fared even worse than Mercedes.
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