Their new rear wing and new floor should make the car go quicker, but they do not have the track time at a race weekend to go through the thousands of combinations of ride heights and hard or soft suspension settings, versus high or low wing levels.

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Yes, the low downforce wing made it easier to make such errors but was not in itself the cause of the poor lap time.

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Hamilton was on the third row not because the low downforce wing did not work but because he had made a couple of key errors on the lap, partly induced by being in the wake of Mark Webber's Red Bull.

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