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Mercedes' qualifying gamble could cost them in the race
Mercedes' decision to run the ultrasoft tyres in Q2 during qualifying might come back to haunt the Silver Arrows. The team had to bail out of their plan after not setting a time fast enough to get through to Q3 and had to go back out on hypersoft tyres to get through. Although Lewis Hamilton had posed the question as to whether their rivals would adapt to the tyres in the race having not run them this weekend thus far, Mercedes' gamble has left them as the only team without a set of fresh ultrasoft tyres. It means that it could lead to both Hamilton and Valtteri Bottas being required to conserve tyre life more aggressively than those around them. Mercedes boss Toto Wolff acknowledged that...
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