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Oleg Karpov – Klaxon) For all of you, are you surprised by Mercedes’s qualifying performance, 12th and 15th?

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Oleg Karpov – Klaxon) For all of you, are you surprised by Mercedes’s qualifying performance, 12th and 15th?

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SV: Bit surprised, as you said, 12th and 15th. In first qualifying, it was Michael, I think, who right at the end managed to get into Q2. They looked very competitive yesterday. I don’t know what went wrong or what happened but they definitely looked stronger yesterday and this morning than they were this afternoon, so it looked a bit odd but obviously it’s the same for all of us, you’ve got a lot of things to do in qualifying and focus on your own, so apart from the result you don’t know much more. Q: (Ivan Martin – La Gaceta) To Mark and Sebastian, with the introduction of the F-duct, have you found your car less competitive in the corners, have you lost some of the downforce because of the F-duct? MW: Good question. It’s a very complicated system. McLaren, we know, have had quite a long period of time with it and teams are trying to close the gap to a point where it’s sensible but we are realistic; we’re never going to have the system probably as nicely integrated into the car and e

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