Of course we could all see that once again Mercedes was by far the fastest on Friday. Unfortunately Max Verstappen had a hard time keeping up on the short qualifying runs. In the race simulation Verstappen came a lot closer, but also here Mercedes seems to be just a bit faster. But where is Mercedes faster than Red Bull Racing? Formula1 comes with their analysis of today. If everything goes normally, it doesn't seem that Verstappen will be able to outsmart the Mercedes in qualifying. Team boss Christian Horner already called the speed of Mercedes there "very competitive", but the Englishman is not really right: Mercedes was on average (over the two free practice sessions) one...
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