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F1 trio predicts Ferrari will not be a serious threat to Mercedes

A trio of well-known F1 figures has questioned whether Ferrari can keep up its new winning form. Sebastian Vettel stunned the Sepang paddock by winning on merit last Sunday, despite the Italian team's only recently-ended period of turmoil, and the apparent continuing dominance of reigning world champions Mercedes. But Mika Hakkinen, a retired former two-time champion, thinks the tyres played a major role in Malaysia. 'The compounds selected by Pirelli for Malaysia were much better suited to the Ferrari than the Mercedes,' he said in his latest interview for Hermes. 'Ferrari will not be a serious threat to Mercedes in every race,' Hakkinen predicts, 'but at any rate we are not going to see...
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