Lewis Hamilton is favourite to win the Spanish Grand Prix for a fourth time, and third in a row, on Sunday and retake the Formula 1 world championship lead from Mercedes teammate Valtteri Bottas who leads the championship by a single point. Needless to say, Ferrari have another script in mind for a race seen as something of a litmus test for their title prospects. Sebastian Vettel and Charles Leclerc dominated pre-season testing at Barcelona’s Circuit de Catalunya amid excited talk of Ferrari ending Mercedes’ five-year stranglehold on the sport. They return reeling from four successive Mercedes one-two finishes, an unprecedented start to the season by any team, and hoping an engine...
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