After watching his cars dominate the first day of free practice for the Japanese Grand Prix with a healthy margin over Ferrari, Mercedes team chief Toto Wolff believes that Ferrari were sandbagging on Friday. Formula 1 championship leader Lewis Hamilton topped the timing screens by four-tenths of a second over teammate Valtteri Bottas, at the end of the afternoon FP2 session and eight tenths ahead of title rival Sebastian Vettel. But, speaking to Sky F1 at the end of the afternoon session, Wolff smells a rat, 'Ferrari have turned [it] down a bit. We are actually losing a bit through the esses, the fast corners, so I think probably Vettel's lap time is a little better at the moment.' The...
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