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'Merc v Ferrari will be close'

F1 is poised for more "exciting" duels between Mercedes and Ferrari in 2016, according to Niki Lauda. The anticipated battle between last year's two top teams materialised at last weekend's season-opener in Australia with arguably only a mistaken tyre call from Ferrari denying the Scuderia a first Melbourne win in nine years. Although Mercedes still finished first and second, Sebastian Vettel led for over half the race and Ferrari boss Maurizio Arrivabene insisted afterwards "we were there - this is the news". And Lauda, Mercedes' non-executive chairman, is not expecting the Ferrari threat to diminish over the following 20 races. "I'm afraid we'll see more of this...
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