It is no secret that Mercedes had startup problems during the winter test in Bahrain. To what extent they have applied the well known 'sandbagging' we will only see during the first race weekend. For team owner Toto Wolff the problems are a source of frustration. That the team had problems during the test was clear, especially with the low mileage. There were gearbox and balance issues that left Valtteri Bottas stranded for hours and Lewis Hamilton spinning in the gravel trap. Whether these problems were present across all sessions remains to be seen, but Wolff insists there was no sandbagging. Read more Hamilton expects Verstappen next to him: 'You can only assume that they're there'...
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