Mercedes Are Revolutionising Formula 1 Pre-Season Testing with Jerez Display

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Published: February 2, 2015

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Need an indication of just how impressive Mercedes' start to pre-season testing has been?

Take a look at the comments emerging from Red Bull Racing and Williams, who finished second and third, respectively, behind the Silver Arrows in the 2014 constructors' championship after the first day at the Jerez circuit on Sunday.

"In general everything is behaving as it should. Obviously we had a couple of issues, but once the car is running it's all going pretty normally. A good first day, there are some positive signs there," said Daniel Ricciardo, whose RB11 completed 35 laps, to Red Bull's official website.



The thoughts of the Australian, the only non-Mercedes driver to win a race last season, were echoed by the outfit's head of race engineering, Guillaume Rocquelin, who told the same source:

The day generally went according to plan, starting cautiously, building up the length of the runs and learning all the time.

We had a small issue with the brake controls system around lunchtime but you're always going to have little niggles like that on days like this. 

There was a similar vibe at Williams, who racked up more than twice as many laps as the four-time constructors' championships, with Valtteri Bottas ending the day with 73 under his belt.

The Finnish driver spoke of a "really good" day's work to the team's official website, with chief test and support engineer Rod Nelson declaring himself "very satisfied" after going through "our normal winter test programmes."



Now compare the thoughts of Ricciardo, Rocquelin, Bottas and Nelson to those of Nico Rosberg shortly after the German finished his first day of official running behind the wheel of the Mercedes W06 Hybrid.

When asked whether—even at this early stage—he had begun addressing the weaknesses in his driving style that ultimately led to his defeat by Lewis Hamil...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Formula 1

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