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Hamilton: Experimental set-up in FP2 'didn’t feel that great'

Lewis Hamilton says he ran a different set-up to Mercedes teammate George Russell in Friday's second practice in Baku in a bid to improve his car's bouncing issues but the test proved unsatisfactory. In Barcelona, team boss Toto Wolff felt confident that Mercedes' engineers had put themselves on top of the W13's chronic porpoising issues, a claim supported by Russell's podium in Spain. However, in Monaco the bouncing returned although Wolff put his drivers' bumpy ride on the track rather than on the silver arrow's aerodynamics. But in Baku on Friday, porpoising was ever-present once again, much to Hamilton's frustration, with the Briton ending the session P12, 1.65s off Ferrari pacesetter...
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