After an underwhelming opening day of preseason testing in Jerez yesterday, the watching world was treated to a much more productive, and fascinating, day of running today. While yesterday most teams treaded lightly around the track for just a few laps at a time, a far greater understanding of the machinery at hand meant almost all teams significantly increased their mileage today. Short installation laps perforated by long spells in the garage became decently long runs on track with much shorter spells waiting around. Indeed, the current theme of preseason testing in 2014 is that of small gains. But while small gains last year  meant  just that, a small gain this year is far more...
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