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Mercedes 2014 rule change fear led to "idle mode" qualifying - Lowe
Sam Hall Thursday 29 April 2021 08:31 Former Mercedes executive director Paddy Lowe has revealed the championship-winning team almost never ran its 2014 power unit to its maximum potential for fear of looking too good. Mercedes missed out on pole position just once in the first year of the V6 turbo-hybrid era with Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg sharing 18 pole positions between them. Article continues under video In a daunting revelation, Lowe suggested the drivers achieved this feat almost always without the car operating at its absolute best as team principal, Toto Wolff, and the Daimler board harboured concerns the team would be pegged back by Bernie Ecclestone. Speaking on the Beyond...
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