Formula 1's return to full in-season testing commenced in Bahrain on Tuesday and in keeping with the Mercedes-dominated race weekend at Sakhir it was Nico Rosberg who comfortably set the Day One pace.Aside from a one-off pre-European season test at Mugello two years ago, there had been a blanket ban on proper in-season running outside of grand prix weekends since the end of 2008, but one of 2014's less publicised changes, the rules have been revised for this season with four two-day sessions organised on the Tuesday and Wednesday after races. Bahrain is the first venue to stage such a test and unsurprisingly, given the team's crushing margin of superiority en-route to their one-two race...
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