Nico Rosberg reckons his sideways exit from the final corner of his flying lap cost him two places on the grid and a possible all-Mercedes front row at the Chinese Grand Prix. Rosberg will start from fourth on the grid after clocking a time just under 0.4s off team-mate Lewis Hamilton and 0.1s slower than Kimi Raikkonen in second. He said he was put on the back foot by a hydraulic issue in final practice that prevented him from running the soft tyre on Saturday morning, but admitted it was his mistake in the final corner that cost him positions. "[The hydraulic problem] affected me a little bit because it didn't allow me to practice for qualifying this morning and time to optimise the...
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