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Party goes on without 'party mode' - Wolff

Sep.6 'Party mode' may be gone, but Toto Wolff says the party will go on for Mercedes in 2020. The dominant F1 team's boss poked fun at rivals like Red Bull who pushed hard for the FIA to restrict engine usage to a single mode from Monza. "We still had a very good party," Wolff told Sky Italia after Lewis Hamilton and Valtteri Bottas locked out the front row of the grid, eight tenths ahead of McLaren's Carlos Sainz. "I'm glad the efforts of some teams went nowhere. In the end we didn't use the engine so much, so maybe we have saved ten seconds for the race." Max Verstappen is just fifth on the grid, almost a full second behind pole. "I'm not sure how happy Red...
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