With 181 laps completed at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, the penultimate day of 2018 pre-season testing turned out to be the Mercedes team's busiest so far. Valtteri drove the F1 W09 EQ Power+ in the morning, completing 97 laps before the lunch break Lewis hit the track in the afternoon, adding another 84 laps to the W09's tally Both drivers completed similar test programmes, doing race simulations and gathering data on the 2018 Pirelli tyres Mercedes-Benz Power Units today completed a total of 2,234 km Valtteri Bottas: 'Today was one of those days that you learn the most from as a driver. For the first time this year, I did a race simulation with a proper race distance. You have the...
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