Wolff laughs: “For a moment I thought of a Mercedes 1-2-3. Hamilton is still one of our drivers…” – VIDEO

Mercedes still ahead in China

It is the ideal Saturday for Mercedes and for Toto Wolff. After the victory in the Sprint, the Shanghai qualifying confirmed the clear supremacy of the W17, at least over a single lap: in three battles for pole position, the Brackley team has always monopolized the front row.

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In China, Kimi Antonelli took the first pole position of his very promising career, bringing Italy back to the front of the grid after 17 years and becoming the youngest pole-sitter in history. A very important milestone for Wolff’s protégé, but the Austrian can also rejoice in the performance of George Russell (second despite power unit problems and issues in preparing the push lap) and finds a way to smile at that of Lewis Hamilton, with whom he shared the golden era of his team.

And Wolff laughs it off

In the Mercedes garage, Wolff let out a joke: “For a moment I thought we had three cars in the top three positions. I have to get used to it! One is in red? He is still our driver…“

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Tomorrow the Brackley team will seek their second victory in the first two GPs. They will have to defend themselves from the attacks of their former leader Hamilton, eager to achieve his first podium with Ferrari, and Charles Leclerc. They will start from the second row and are ready to exploit the advantage at the start, which was also reaffirmed in tonight’s Sprint.

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