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After the Hungarian Grand Prix, Toto Wolff says Mercedes “had the second quickest car”, but they “just didn’t monetise on it”.
After getting a terrific pole position at Hungarian Grand Prix Qualifying, in the race Lewis Hamilton ultimately came in P4. George Russell however managed to go from P18 to P6.
After the race, Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff said he believes the W14 was actually the second fastest car on the grid.
“I think we had the second quickest car today,” the Austrian told Sky Sports F1.
“If you look at the lap time profile, also where George came from, but we just didn’t monetise on it.
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“But having said that, you see where Verstappen is doing his laps, tranquil, and that needs to be the target – and that’s far off at the moment. The start certainly played a role, but that can happen.
“It was maybe also we brought the tyres in very carefully, maybe too careful, and you can see the lap time difference towards the end. I think we reeled in maybe 15 seconds – something around that.
“We were missing at the end 1.9s to Perez and just four seconds to Lando, or less, and I think we had that,” Wolff concluded.
