Mercedes remained the class of the field as Formula One testing concluded in Barcelona. Lewis Hamilton and Valtteri Bottas finished their last runs at the Circuit de Catalunya on Friday, having put in some relentless running and pace across almost every one of the six days, with Bottas topping the timesheets. At Williams, deputy team principal Claire Williams hit out at suggestions in Barcelona that the team’s recent poor performances were in any way attributable to her having a baby. Her British driver George Russell insisted that after the team had hit rock bottom last year they were finally on an upward curve. When the final day of winter testing came to an end, Bottas’s day three run set on the softest tyres of 1min 15.732sec was still the quickest and the team completed the most laps with 903. The evolution of last year’s car which took Hamilton to his sixth title and Mercedes to their sixth consecutive drivers’ and constructors’ double, remains the one to beat. Mercedes were also consistently quick in race simulations. They lost one afternoon of running when Hamilton’s car came to a halt with an oil pressure problem. The only apparent issue of any real… Read full this story
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