MERCEDES STARTS 2020 WITH DOMINATION AND INNOVATION

Mercedes’ W11 bristled with new developments and seemed ominously quick, but were the other teams holding something back in the first pre-season test?

ALEX KALINAUCKAS

As you read this, the second pre-season test of Formula 1 2020 will be well under way at Barcelona – more laps, more data, more stories. But what happened over last week’s opening test is well worth recalling. The story of the season began and the initial themes of the campaign emerged. When it all concludes in Abu Dhabi at the end of season, the tales told throughout the year will trace back to those sunny three days in Spain. For Mercedes, 2020 couldn’t really have started any better. It completed the highest number of laps, with its engines doing likewise ahead of the Ferrari, Renault and Honda totals, and it set the two fastest times with Valtteri Bottas and Lewis Hamilton. It was quite a turnaround from the same test…

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