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Smedley: ’Horrendous misfires’ could come from engine setup
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Williams’ Rob Smedley says the “horrendous misfires” that both Felipe Massa and Valtteri Bottas suffered in qualifying for the Belgian Grand Prix could come from the way their Mercedes engines had been set up. Williams’ efforts during the pole position shootout were hampered by software issues, with the British team unable to run the qualifying mode on their power units and estimating that it could have started the race ahead of rivals Force India. “On the first timed lap, when we put the qualifying mode in, we had horrendous misfires all the way from Turn 1 down to Turn 4 - that was on Felipe’s car,” Smedley said. “We then kind of understood there...
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