Mercedes strategy boss, James Vowles has explained why the team's drivers struggled in qualifying in Turkey. With Lewis Hamilton qualifying sixth, 4.7s off Lance Stroll's best, and teammate, Valtteri Bottas ninth (+ 5.4s) it was the first time the German team hasn't had a car on the front row of the gird since Brazil last year. In the team's latest debrief, strategy boss, James Vowles reveals that the root cause of the team's woes was the inability to generate sufficient energy into its tyres in qualifying due to the minimal amount of running. 'In Q1 when cars were on the wet tyre doing multiple laps, we weren't poor relative to the field at that point, in fact both of our cars were in the...
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