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Max fears Mercedes will ‘step it up'
Max Verstappen says Mercedes have usually stepped up their performance on race days in 2020, so feels the Sakhir GP could be the same. Around the fast sub-minute Outer Circuit in Bahrain the top three of Valtteri Bottas, George Russell and Verstappen were separated by less than a tenth of a second at the end of qualifying. P3 is a familiar position for Verstappen, but it's rare that he is only 0.056s off the Mercedes on pole. That being said, he never really thought pole for the Sakhir Grand Prix was possible. 'I was very close yes, but I think at the end third is fine,' he told reporters in Bahrain. 'I never thought we could really go for pole but I'm of course happy that we were that...
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