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Official Pre-season testing thread

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  1. Forza Bianchi

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    14:18 Meanwhile, we have also found out what the problem was at Mercedes: The water pressure in the engine is dropped suddenly. When it goes on, we can not say unfortunately.
     
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    Alonso on a long run, in the 1:42's and 43's
     
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    Trackside observations

     
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    11:45 Rosberg is consistently lapping in the low 1m40s to high 1m39s at the moment. Alonso is in the 43s. Bottas is just winding up.
     
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    Hulk - 1m37.215s
     
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    Obligatory Mercedes power 1,2,3 now
     
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    Hulkenberg was on soft tyres
     
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    Tobias Grüner F1 ‏@tgruener 2m
    @MercAMGF1Fans Hulkenberg was on soft, Rosberg on medium. Hulkenberg 5-lap-run, Rosberg 12 lap-run. So fastest lap no surprise.
     
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    Marussia in the wars this test sadly :(
     
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    Sauber stopped. Braking issue?
     
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    Now Hulk has done a 1:36.445

    EDIT: On soft tyres and pitted immediately after.
     
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    Amazing, Seb with 43 laps done, FEAR THEM!
     
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    Mercedes turning up the dial for fun now.
     
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    McLaren pleasing the sponsors
     
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    Magnussen - 1m35.489s on soft tyres.
     
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    Glory run or not, they're under 2 seconds off the times that they did in qualifying last year. Given reports of how slow this years cars are meant to be, that has to be a genuinely quick time.
     
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    Much harder to run fake times this year as well as there's not excess ballast to take out :)
     
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    And how far away is the best Ferrari powered unit to the fastest Mercedes so far? ye 2.2 seconds!!!
     
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