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The Morning After: Who's Sandbagging Now?

Valtteri Bottas. Photo: Jerry Andre/Sutton/Pirelli Dominating the opening two sessions of the 2019 season, Mercedes just made the task of divining the F1 pecking order even harder than it was already. Forget handbags at dawn, on Friday in Melbourne, it was sandbags at dusk. How else can you describe the bizarre situation we have after second practice? Mercedes at the top, sure I can buy that, but by eight tenths? If testing meant anything at all, that seems a little off. Either Mercedes pulled the mother of all sandbag-jobs in testing, or Ferrari are yet to take theirs off – or maybe it’s both. That’s the only way you can explain how Mercedes have it looking like it’s 2014 all over...
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