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“Very difficult to understand. We've been a little bit caught out on Friday, with some car behaviour that we didn't see all year.”

Toto Wolff, at 0:48 of “Penalty Changes Malaysia Quali Result, Mercedes Crumble, Hamilton Update After Shock Lap” on James' Pit Lane’s channel.

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  1. 0:33 Now, race pace may be better. However, over one lap, Mercedes are certainly struggling in Malaysia.
  2. 0:40 So what's going on? While Mercedes' team boss Toyota Wolf has admitted Mercedes are confused over the lack of pace, with Wolf telling Sky Sports F1,
  3. 0:48 very difficult to understand. We've been a little bit caught out on Friday, with some car behaviour that we didn't see all year.
  4. 0:55 And then you can say it's very hot, and the tarmac is different to all the other tracks. It looked really good this morning.
  5. 1:01 We seem to have, at least with Kimi, made a step in understanding. And then qualifying was a little bit back to what we saw before, just no performance.

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