Toto Wolff has admitted that he was surprised Ferrari were so fast in the first two sessions of qualfying before Valtteri Bottas and Lewis Hamilton locked out the front row for Sunday's British Grand Prix.
Charles Leclerc looked especially threatening to Mercedes in the first two sessions, but the Scuderia fell away in the final session and Mercedes were able to take control of the grid.
Wolff told Sky Sports: "It came as a little bit as a surprise but finally in Q3 they went backwards and we went forwards.
"The grip ramped up, the whole car heated up, and that make the whole thing come towards us."
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