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Mercedes strengthened T-wing after FP2 incident

Mercedes boss Toto Wolff says the team has heavily strengthened its T-wing and is hopeful of avoiding another incident in Sunday's Bahrain Grand Prix. The T-wing fell off Valtteri Bottas's Mercedes in Friday's second practice and subsequently caused damage to the floor of Max Verstappen's Red Bull. It was the second incident Mercedes had encountered, following a similar one in China, leading to the outfit strengthening the device overnight. The FIA asked Mercedes to prove the fix could guarantee there would be no repeat ahead of third practice or it would ask the team to remove the device. The T-wing appeared on the car in final practice and qualifying. "We fixed the problem,"...
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