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| | ABU DHABI, Nov 19 (Reuters) - Mercedes team boss mahong toto (https://linkr.bio/mahongtoto) Wolff dismissed his team's final qualifying session of the Formula One season in Abu Dhabi on Saturday as "one to put in the toilet".<br> Seven-times world champion Lewis Hamilton qualified fifth at Yas Marina, dimming hopes that he might avoid a first season without a win, while team mate and last weekend's Brazilian Grand Prix winner George Russell will line up sixth on Sunday.<br> "Today, I just heard, is World Toilet Day so I think that is one to put in the toilet," Wolff told Sky sports television.<br> "I think we didn't get the job done. I think we went backwards and they (Ferrari) did a little step forward," added the Austrian.<br> "We went on a high-downforce, high-drag concept in order to have a good race car tomorrow and that was just so slow on the straights."<br> With Max Verstappen and Red Bull having clinched both titles already, Mercedes and Ferrari are fighting for the runner-up slot in the constructors' championship.<br> Mercedes, winners of a record eight constructors' titles in a row until Red Bull dethroned them this year, are 19 points behind Ferrari.<br> The Italian team had Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz qualify third and fourth, with Verstappen on pole and Red Bull team mate Sergio Perez alongside him on the front row.<br> Hamilton said Mercedes had thought Abu Dhabi would be a difficult track for them but he had not been expecting such a margin, with the Briton nearly eight-tenths off Verstappen's pole pace.<br> "Six-tenths of that is just on the straight," added Hamilton, a five-times winner at Yas Marina.<br> "Bouncing is back, with a vengeance. And that's definitely losing us time."<br> Mercedes spent much of the early part of the season battling 'porpoising', the bouncing on the straight that they appeared to have fixed in recent races.<br> Hamilton said there had also been a brake problem with the discs.<br> "When you hit the brake the car pulls one direction. Going into turn five, the car's pulling to the right and it's a left-hand corner so it's not ideal," he said.
(Reporting by Alan Baldwin in London, editing by Clare Fallon)<br>
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