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Hamilton appears to be able to find that extra gear, much as Senna could, over the rest of the field, even admitting himself it was “one of my best” pole laps.That ‘extra gear’ was labelled the ‘party mode’ on the Mercedes power unit, seemingly coined by Hamilton himself during a Petronas sponsor event in Italy last week. Suped-up engine modes are nothing new in F1 pushing for peak performance, yet Hamilton said he was looking forward to seeing what the power unit could do when turned up to 11.
Hamilton was coy about the “party mode” concept after the session, though, stressing: “I can assure you we don’t have a party mode. I use the same mode from Q2 to end of Q3. There was no extra button, there was no extra mode that I engaged in.”
Yet Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff appeared to contradict his driver when speaking after the session, saying there was a shift in mode between the sessions. “There is a party mode in the car, but we switched the party mode on in Q3,” Wolff said. “There was no difference from the first run in Q3 to the second run in Q3, he just said that he had a great lap, pulled it all together and carried more speed through the apexes.”

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