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Mercedes: Big gap to Verstappen is 'hard to swallow'
Mercedes' trackside engineering director Andrew Shovlin admitted that there was a bigger gap than expected between his drivers and Red Bull's Max Verstappen. The Dutch driver was almost four tenths quicker than Lewis Hamilton in the final round of qualifying, having been more than seven tenths quicker than anyone in the earlier Saturday afternoon practice "It's disappointing at the first race to be looking at a 0.4s gap to pole," acknowledged Shovlin. "But at least we know the performance we need to find going forward. "It's also no secret that we've been struggling with the car around this circuit," he added. "It's nowhere near as easy to work with as the...
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