Mercedes finally topped a testing timesheet for the first time in 2015 as the world champions displayed an ominous turn of speed to shatter the fastest time seen at Barcelona this winter. While the pace of the sleek W06 had not been in doubt up until Day Two of the final test, the fact the team had exclusively run on the slower medium and hard compounds meant that neither Nico Rosberg nor Lewis Hamilton had truly lit up a timesheet in the opening nine days of pre-season action. However, that all changed on Friday afternoon at the Circuit de Catalunya as for the first time Mercedes bolted the quicker soft tyres onto the W06 and Rosberg immediately clocked a blistering 1:22.792 time – a...
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