Nico Rosberg gave a glimpse of what Mercedes is truly capable of this season, without even needing to resort to the softest rubber. Just over an hour before the end of today's running, Mercedes switched to the soft compound for the first time this year. Shortly afterwards, Rosberg stopped the clock at 1:22.792, 1.203s quicker than the time posted by Williams' Valtteri Bottas earlier, and 0.708 quicker than Felipe Massa's stunner yesterday. Today's third fastest time, posted by Felipe Nasr in the Sauber, was 1.279s off Rosberg's pace, the Brazilian running super-softs compared to the German's softs. Whilst the opposition will be wondering what it can possibly to do take the fight to...
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