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Nico, Lauda disagree over lack of power

Nico Rosberg claimed that his lack of pace during qualifying at Monza was due to his old engine, but Niki Lauda begged to differ. The German's new-spec power unit (PU) suffered a failure during FP3 on Saturday morning and Mercedes decided to put an old engine in his car ahead of qualy. While his team-mate Lewis Hamilton, who had the new-spec PU at his disposal, went on to claim his 11th pole position of the season, Rosberg could only manage P4 as Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen and Sebastian Vettel were also faster than him. Rosberg was adamant afterwards that his woes were down to the old engine. 'We had to go back to an engine that has done six races now and, every kilometre, you lose a...
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