Faster, more exciting, and very different: F1's new era has a lot of hype to live up to when pre-season testing begins at Barcelona on Monday. While testing is a notoriously unreliable indicator of the true pecking order heading into a new season, this year's compressed calendar - consisting of just eight days of pre-season action, all of which will take place at the Circuit de Catalunya - and the sport's 'rules refresh' should produce an intensive and potentially instructive two weeks in Spain. The sport's regulators will be particularly keen observers on proceedings after rewriting F1's aerodynamic regulations to inspire cars up to five second a lap faster than last year's. How to follow...
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