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Verstappen mocks Wolff's ‘couple of horsepower' claim

Feb.13 Max Verstappen has mocked Toto Wolff's claim that Mercedes' controversial engine compression concept is worth only 'a couple of horsepower'. When told in Bahrain that the Mercedes boss had downplayed the advantage to 'two or three' horsepower, Verstappen laughed. 'You can definitely put a zero behind that,' the Red Bull driver said, suggesting the true figure could be 20 or even 30 horsepower – potentially worth around three tenths of a second per lap. 'I understand what they're trying to do. They're trying to shift it to us, because we did so many runs on Wednesday.' Verstappen is convinced the real picture will emerge in Australia. 'I can tell you one thing – just...
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