Mercedes hopes to experience in Barcelona to what extent the sweeping updates work. Judging purely by the ratings of drivers Lewis Hamilton (11) and George Russell (8), there is still plenty of room for improvement. Hamilton even hinted in Barcelona that reaching Q3 is going to be a hell of a task on Saturday. Article continues under ad Andrew Shovlin, Mercedes' technical man looked back on Friday's two practice sessions in a press release from his team. He saw a day with two faces: "It was difficult to read the order in the first session, because the extra prototype tyres meant everyone deviated from their normal run plans. Our programme in FP1 was biased towards long run work on the...
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