Photo by: www.kymillman.com/f1 Is there a lesson to be learned from the opening practice sessions in Australia? There most likely is and that lesson is multi-faceted for me. Mercedes still seem to be the team to beat and with their “Party Mode” qualifying engine map—which they haven’t ran yet—they most likely will be tough to beat on Saturdays. A front-row start is always good but the race pace is still the slightly less visible from a couch in the middle of America. I was reading the F1 sage Mark Hughes this morning and he articulated what I thought I was seeing as only he can. Red Bull’s race pace was there or thereabouts with Mercedes and Ferrari and whether this is the...
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