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Shovlin: Mercedes 'very much in the midfield' on one-lap pace
Mercedes is among F1's midfield contenders based on its one-lap pace, says the team's trackside engineering director Andrew Shovlin. Both George Russell and Lewis Hamilton failed to make the final stage of qualifying on Friday afternoon at Imola, a first for the Mercedes squad since Japan 2012. Hamilton was even at risk of being knocked out of the session as early as Q1, the seven-time world champion securing his spot in Q2 by just four-thousandths of a second. Ultimately, Russell and Hamilton qualified P11 and P13 on Friday, with both drivers struggling once again with Mercedes' ever-present porpoising issues, but also with tyre temperatures, a factor that weighed heavily on the...
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