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McLaren "paid the price" of set-up trade-off in wet Belgian GP qualifying

McLaren says it was willing the "pay the price" in a wet qualifying session by banking on a set-up optimised for a dry race.

Off the back of its 1-2 win in Hungary, McLaren looked strong again in dry Friday practice at Spa-Francorchamps, but in a wet qualifying session on intermediate tyres Norris and Piastri struggled much more with their MCL38.

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