With effect from the Belgian Grand Prix, the use of qualifying mode is prohibited as an attempt to make things a little more exciting. Mercedes, which has been using this mode successfully for a long time, is one of the teams that will immediately notice the effect of this. Everyone has his own opinion about it, as does Valtteri Bottas, but he is not really worried. Advantage per team difficult to estimate "We are not panicking about it," says the Finn at Sky Sports F1. He also states that the specific profit per engine is very difficult to estimate, because he only knows that from Mercedes itself. "For me it's impossible to say how much other engine manufacturers are...
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