James Allison believes the two weeks of winter testing at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya is extremely punishing for everyone involved, but for his Mercedes AMG Petronas Motorsport team, they can look back at the tests with satisfaction for the amount of work they managed to achieve. Lewis Hamilton and Valtteri Bottas completed a total of one thousand and forty laps across the eight days of testing, which equates to 4,841-kilometres of running, with two hundred and one of those laps being completed on the final day. “Eight days of winter testing is a punishing schedule,” said Mercedes technical director Allison. “All of us out here at the track and those who have supported it back...
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