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Mercedes mystified by lack of race pace

Barcelona: Mercedes urged their many Formula One technical boffins to "think outside the box" and consider the unconsidered after a Spanish Grand Prix that left the team baffled by their cars' lack of race pace. Despite scorching to their third pole position in a row, with Germany's Nico Rosberg notching up his second in succession, Mercedes flopped when it mattered most at the Circuit de Catalunya.

Lewis Hamilton went from second to 12th, in what he said was his worst race for a very long time, while Rosberg finished sixth. How to manage and extract performance from the Pirelli tyres is the conundrum and Mercedes, who have a stellar line-up of senior technical figures, planned to throw all their brainpower into finding an answer.

"Generally what you can say is that the car is a quick car," Mercedes motorsport head Toto Wolff told reporters after emerging from a two-hour post-race technical debrief at the circuit. This is not about a car or a team struggling with lacking pace, a car where you end up 15th on Saturday and then 12th or 16th on Sunday. It is a car that is tremendously fast on the Saturday and has real speed. And then on Sunday we are not able to manage the car with the tyres. One could say 'Did the others go even much more conservative in terms of race setup?' I don't think so. It's something else and I think it requires out of the box thinking," added 

Hamilton suffers as Mercedes drop from the top

Barcelona: Nico Rosberg and Lewis Hamilton were right to be cautious after their Saturday Spanish Grand Prix high turned into another Sunday slump for Mercedes. "It's got to go down as one of the worst races I've had for a long, long time," said 2008 Formula One world champion Hamilton after starting on the front row of the grid and struggling to 12th place and out of the points with...  

Nico Rosberg takes pole position; Hamilton 2nd

Barcelona: Mercedes will start the Spanish Grand Prix from the front row after Nico Rosberg had the fastest qualifying time ahead of teammate Lewis Hamilton on Saturday. While Hamilton had the fastest times in the first two qualifying sessions, Rosberg edged him to win the pole position in 1 minute, 20.718 seconds. "The race is very long, and to win it's not good enough to start from pole - you...  

Lewis Hamilton handed five-place grid penalty

Manama: Lewis Hamilton's hopes of a second successive pole position disappeared on Saturday when he was handed a five-place penalty on the Bahrain Grand Prix starting grid for an unscheduled gearbox change. Mercedes said they had to make the change after the 2008 Formula One world champion hit a kerb in final practice and damaged his car's suspension. Hamilton took the top slot in China last weekend, his first pole...  

Lewis Hamilton riding high with Mercedes

Sakhir: Lewis Hamilton has the look of a man who has silenced the doubters. The Mercedes driver was derided when he abandoned McLaren for the less-glamorous Mercedes team this season. Critics questioned his integrity and accused him of being driven by money. But three races into the season, his gamble appears to be paying off. He had his second podium in three races last week at the Chinese Grand Prix...  

Lewis Hamilton grabs pole position at Chinese Grand Prix

Shanghai: Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton has taken pole position for the Formula One Chinese Grand Prix. Hamilton's best time on Saturday at the Shanghai International Circuit was 1 minute, 34.484 seconds, qualifying a quarter of a second ahead of Lotus' Kimi Raikkonen. Ferrari's Fernando Alonso will start third in Sunday's race. A cat-and-mouse qualifying session saw all runners restrict their time on the track to preserve their tires for the...  

Lewis Hamilton on the mend as tyres take a beating

Shanghai: Lewis Hamilton went from sick to quick at the Chinese Grand Prix on Friday only to find his tyres were falling apart. The two free practice sessions marked the season debut of Pirelli's quick-wearing soft tyres and, while Ferrari's Felipe Massa and Lotus found them to their liking, Hamilton was of the opposite opinion. "My tyre was the worst I've ever experienced. There were bits flying off it all...  

Mercedes' Nico Rosberg fastest in opening practice at Shanghai

Shanghai: Mercedes pair Nico Rosberg and Lewis Hamilton set the fastest times in Friday's opening practice session for the Formula One Chinese Grand Prix. Rosberg, who won here last year for his sole F1 victory, set a time of 1 minute, 36.717 seconds around the Shanghai International Circuit, putting him almost half a second ahead of teammate Hamilton, who is the only two-time winner of this grand prix. Red Bull...  

Lewis Hamilton takes a sick note in Shanghai

Shanghai: Lewis Hamilton cancelled his media engagements and returned to his hotel after feeling unwell at the Chinese Grand Prix on Thursday. A Mercedes team spokeswoman said the 2008 Formula One world champion, who moved from McLaren at the end of last season, would be back at the circuit for scheduled practice on Friday. Mercedes won in China last year with Germany's Nico Rosberg, their first grand prix victory since...  

Ross Brawn says team orders went against his nature

London: Lewis Hamilton has never asked for favoured treatment at Mercedes and the team orders that helped him to third place at the Malaysian Grand Prix were made only out of necessity, according to principal Ross Brawn. Brawn told Sky Sports F1 in an interview that both Hamilton, the 2008 Formula One world champion, and German team-mate Nico Rosberg were told to hold position purely because of a fuel issue....  

Red Bull have a clear number one, says Hamilton

London: Lewis Hamilton has turned his fire on Formula One rivals Red Bull for suggesting after a controversial Malaysian Grand Prix that he has joined Mercedes as their clear number one. The race at Sepang was dominated by controversial team orders issued by champions Red Bull and Mercedes but Red Bull consultant Helmut Marko said afterwards that his team had a different approach to Hamilton's. "The team will have a...  

Sebastian Vettel wins the Malaysian Grand Prix 2013

Sepang: Formula One world champion Sebastian Vettel stormed to victory in a thrilling Malaysian Grand Prix on Sunday, leading a Red Bull one-two ahead of team mate Mark Webber in a race packed with intrigue, incident and plenty of bad blood. The Mercedes duo of Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg crossed the line in unison 12 seconds behind Vettel, while last year's winner Fernando Alonso crashed out on the second...  

Sebastian Vettel grabs pole position for Malaysian Grand Prix 2013

The Red Bull driver posted a lap time of 1:36.435 around the rain-hit Sepang International Circuit. ...  

Red Bull's Vettel fastest in third practice at Malaysian GP

Three-time defending champion Sebastian Vettel edged Lewis Hamilton's time by 0.133 seconds. ...  

Hamilton sees Mercedes progress in the long run

Hamilton qualified third but finished fifth in the first competitive outing for his new team at Australian GP. ...  

You know nothing, Lewis Hamilton tells his critics

Lewis Hamilton has taken a swipe at critics, including former Formula One drivers, who had warned that his move to Mercedes was a mistake. ...  

Lewis Hamilton sees promise in Mercedes

Although blown away by Lotus' Raikkonen, Hamilton saw enough in the Mercedes F1 W04 car to feel confident of challenging the front-runners. ...  

Rain forces Australian Grand Prix qualifying to Sunday

Qualifying at the season-opening Australian GP has been postponed to Sunday in Melbourne due to heavy rain. ...  

Racing against Hamilton will make me stronger, says Rosberg

Rosberg believes it will be a "huge challenge" going up against team-mate Lewis Hamilton but thinks the challenge will make him a better driver. ...