Mercedes’ experiments with their rear-wing set-up levels partly explained the surprising gap between Lewis Hamilton and George Russell in F1 Italian Grand Prix second practice.
"We are about 5kph down to George. A bit more than in the sim.”"It's mainly straight line but there's a little bit of a loss turn one to turn two.”"That would wipe out most of our programme, that's the problem Lewis.”
“Usually when you go into P2, can’t figure out more, but the car seems to be more of a challenge in P2. So we’re just going through the data now and I’m sure it’s something we can rectify overnight.”
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