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Australian GP Tech Bites: Mercedes and Red Bull

Mercedes stated early in the weekend that pre-season testing hadn’t gone exactly to plan, despite clocking the most laps and showing signs of having the fastest car.  Some of the aerodynamic upgrades hadn’t performed as expected and the team also had to remove some of the complex suspension elements to comply with the FIA’s directive on aero-influencing systems.  As a result a post-Singapore-2015-style analysis was launched to uncover the performance that was locked within the W08, which showed immediately after Friday practice as Lewis Hamilton described the car as a “night and day” improvement.  Most of the progress the team made between...
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