Mercedes AMG team boss Toto Wolff says his team fully expect to have to battle very hard to have a chance of victory in Melbourne. Heading to the season opener in Australia this weekend, it's not quite clear where Mercedes lie in the pecking order. The reigning Champions were largely nondescript throughout pre-season testing, with Lewis Hamilton & Valtteri Bottas both saying they believed Ferrari to have a theoretical time advantage of a few tenths of a second per lap. However, on the final day, both Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel & Merc's Hamilton set almost identical fastest times of testing on the softest C5 compound – suggesting that the two cars may not be all that different in...
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