Mercedes driver Nico Rosberg set a searing pace on the final day of the second pre-season test in Bahrain. The German impressed rival teams with a lap of one minute 33.283 seconds, the fastest time of the test and 1.627secs quicker than any other team's best. McLaren's Jenson Button was second fastest on the day, 1.674secs behind Rosberg, with Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen third, 3.435secs adrift. World champions Red Bull continued to struggle with reliability issues. With two-thirds of pre-season testing gone, Red Bull have done approximately a sixth of the mileage of Mercedes, and their fastest lap is more than six seconds slower than Rosberg's. After a gearbox failure halted running on...
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