Mercedes showed in Shanghai on Friday that they were up for the challenge from Ferrari as Lewis Hamilton was quickest, while Felipe Massa and Daniil Kvyat had brushes with the barriers. After being stunned by Sebastian Vettel and Ferrari on race day in Malaysia last time out, Mercedes have spent the best part of the past two eeks insisting that they will up their game. And they did just that in Free Practice as Hamilton was more than a second faster than the Ferraris in FP1 and the defending World Champion was once again too good for the rest of the pack in FP2. He initially led the timesheets with a 1:39.058 on the medium tyres, but Kimi Raikkonen in the Ferrari was the first to venture...
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