Mercedes What’s New: Not a huge amount. Naturally, a new car, and a tweaked livery. Valtteri Bottas has a new set of engineers, and the team has support from both Esteban Ocon and Stoffel Vandoorne back at base. But otherwise, the status quo has largely remained for 2019. How Testing Went: Fairly well. Struggles with front tyre graining sent alarm bells ringing to begin with, but Mercedes was able to get on top of a number of those issues as it debuted a heavily-updated package at the second test. Lewis Hamilton managed to end the final day of testing just three-thousandths of a second back from pace-setter Sebastian Vettel, acting as a late boost in confidence. But the feeling is that...
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