Another Formula 1 race and another Mercedes-AMG victory. The Mercedes-Petronas team has now won every race this 2016 Formula 1 season except for one. That is impressive. As was Nico Rosberg's dominance especially after his teammate Lewis Hamilton won the two previous races.

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The battle between Hamilton and Rosberg will be interesting to watch as the season continues but as each driver keeps winning Mercedes keeps piling on the points. Ferrari is certainly fighting as is Red Bull but Mercedes is in command of this season.

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The European Grand Prix took place in Azerbaijan which is not exactly a place most people associate with Europe. Regardless, Baku appeared quite beautiful and one would have to invent reasons to claim the race was not a success.

Rosberg dominated the Grand Prix and Hamilton had some kind of issues which forced him to finish in fifth place. Hamilton's issues were attributed to an engine setting problem.

Unfortunately, the European Grand Prix was overshadowed by Le Mans. Motorsport fans will be focused back on Formula 1 for the Austrian Grand Prix on July 3rd.

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Q: Toto, there seems to have been a setting issue on both cars. Can you explain what exactly was going on? And why Nico was able to cure the problem?

Toto Wolff: We had a configuration setting problem - an electronic setting problem - with engine modes. By regulation we are not allowed to tell the driver [how to fix the problem] - they needed to figure it out themselves. Nico was in the more fortunate situation that he did a switch change just before which kind of led him on the right path, so within half a lap he went back into the right mode. Lewis - because he didn’t have that right path - took a while to figure it out, something like 12 laps - and this for sure affected his race. Right now we don’t know how much it affected his race overall - we will analyse it when we are back in the factory - but from what we have seen I would estimate it at 0.2 seconds a lap. But for Lewis it must have felt much more, as in Turn 2 and 3 - where you expect the biggest boost - there simply was none, so subconsciously it must have felt like a lot more.

Q: Why were the settings wrong in the first place?

TW: Well, the settings were wrong because we had a messy Friday where we couldn’t configure it in the way we should have done, so everything was pre-set in the wrong way and it started to show a little bit earlier on Lewis’ car than on Nico’s car. Three laps earlier.

Q: Were the issues anything to do with the track layout? Or have you introduced a new mode?

TW: You are always trying to optimise the mode - and this was the optimisation! Unfortunately it didn’t work. It simply failed.