Gary Anderson ranks the teams after F1 testing
Our ex-F1 designer has ploughed through the data from the second test at Barcelona and picks out a few worrying trends that even he hopes aren't true by the time the racing starts
There will be plenty of people out there who will disagree with this analysis of the competitive order based on pre-season testing. And I hope I am wrong.
To make any sense out of these two pre-season tests is pretty difficult. But over the days a trend emerges, and that trend points to Mercedes having once again done an exceptional job.
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