As Andrew Shovlin admits to the team's 'worst Friday by some margin', Mercedes fears woeful single-lap pace will cost it dearly in qualifying. If there is one crumb of comfort for Mercedes heading into today's qualifying session, it is that in 2017 Daniel Ricciardo won the race despite starting from tenth on the grid. 'Today was our worst Friday by some margin,' was how trackside engineering director, Andrew Shovlin described the opening day of the Azerbaijan weekend. 'Our biggest issue seemed to be the single lap,' he admitted, 'we're a long way from our normal positions so clearly we need to find something very significant there. 'The long run picture was not as bad,' he added, 'a fair...
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