F1's 2015 test season kicked off on Sunday amid stark contrasts, as Mercedes looked set to extend its utter dominance into a second championship campaign. The German giant, in fact, stunned rival engineers up and down the pitlane as Nico Rosberg pounded around the Jerez circuit almost 160 times — a first-day feat perhaps unprecedented in the history of the sport. Mercedes figures could even joke about it. 'Today we reveal our secret,' smiled boss Toto Wolff, who is on crutches after a training accident. 'We want to do endurance racing at Le Mans as well,' he joked, according to Germany's Auto Motor und Sport. And world champion Lewis Hamilton, who spent the day in contract talks with...
Full Story »