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Mercedes can't be beaten until 2021 - Marko

Mar.25 All the talk in the Melbourne paddock is about a button on the Mercedes steering wheel that triggers 'Party mode'. Lewis Hamilton coined the phrase earlier in the weekend, but after going seven tenths quicker than the nearest Ferrari in qualifying, he played it down. "I can assure you we don't have a party mode," said the Mercedes driver. But Red Bull's Dr Helmut Marko insisted that's not right. "Everyone else finds a tenth or hundredths on their last lap. He finds eight tenths," he told Bild newspaper. Even Mercedes boss Toto Wolff admitted: "There is a party mode, but it's switched on at the start of Q3. There is no different mode between the first and...
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