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Hughes wavers 'scary' lead Mercedes: "Just a different engine setting"

In FP1 of the United States Grand Prix, Red Bull Racing seemed to be no match for title rival Mercedes. In FP2 this picture was nuanced. Renowned F1 journalist Mark Hughes dismisses Mercedes' so-called lead. Hughes states in his review of Friday at Circuit of the Americas that it is difficult to determine who was fastest. Lewis Hamilton picked up the fastest time, but it was taken away as he drove over the track limits at Turn 9. Sergio Perez eventually took the fastest time. Hughes writes on The-race.com: "Even Hamilton’s disallowed time was only 0.104s faster than Perez, indicating a) that the scary 0.9s Mercedes advantage seen in the first session was just a matter of a more...
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