Mercedes eager to play down 2014 F1 season favourites tag 4 February, 2014 Mercedes has emerged as the early 2014 Formula 1 season favourite, but just about everyone in the Silver Arrows outfit is keen to play down the significance of the early test form. Amid world champions Red Bull and Renault's crisis, it is obvious that works engine-chassis makers Mercedes and Ferrari have their noses in front on the basis of the opening test at Jerez. And of that pair, Mercedes out-lapped Ferrari to the tune of almost 300 kilometres – a race distance – over the four days in southern Spain. Nico Rosberg even did a full Grand Prix simulation, complete with pitstops, while others were...
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