Amid the ongoing ‘party mode' saga, Red Bull bosses have proposed that rules should be made to prohibit Mercedes using their extra horsepower during qualifying, but their driver Max Verstappen believes such restrictions would be unfair on Mercedes who he says does the best job in Formula 1. Two weeks ago, at the opening round in Melbourne Lewis Hamilton put the Mercedes on pole position by a whopping seven-tenths of a second using what the team calls ‘party mode' – a power boost of sorts. Verstappen was asked by reporters in Bahrain what he thought of restricting Mercedes, he replied, 'Honestly not. Because they do a better job than anybody else, so why would you take it...
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