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Mercedes blames set-up for Hamilton's "disastrous" qualifying
Mercedes non-executive chairman Niki Lauda says Lewis Hamilton's shock exit in the second segment of Monaco Grand Prix qualifying was down to set-up problems. Hamilton comfortably progressed through Q1 but struggled majorly in Q2, eventually ending up 14th. In the meantime, teammate Valtteri Bottas made it to the Q3 shoot-out and subsequently took third, just 0.045s short of pole. "We couldn't get it [the set-up] right on Lewis's car, therefore he had a disastrous qualifying," Lauda told Sky Sports after the session. "Bottas's car was better, very close to the second place. With him we're happy, with Lewis, not at all. "We have to analyse it, check carefully what the...
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