In the wake of the British Grand Prix, it has emerged that Ferrari have the edge in the high-speed stakes, based on analysis of the top speeds set by teams during qualifying for the British Grand Prix when one would expect all engines to be dialled up to the maximum. Stats show that on the day the Ferrari pair had the horses over their rivals with Kimi Raikkonen's top speed of 325.6 kph unmatched at Silverstone. Together with Sebastian Vettel's top speed the Ferrari duo topped the averages. Mercedes were short four or five kilometres per hour down on the red cars. Interestingly, the Mercedes powered customer cars, which included Williams driver Sergey Sirotkin's slowest time on top end,...
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