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We can get there but we are not there yet. All the while Ferrari and Mercedes spent the final week insisting they wouldn t start 2017 as favourites. It looks very positive for Ferrari said Testing may be notoriously misleading but Ferrari really might be closing in on Mercedes with Red Bull just third fastest - for nowFerrari who have not won a title in more than a decade are hotly tipped to take the assault to Hamilton s all-conquering Mercedes team this season after an overhaul of the sport s technical

Hamilton s Mercedes outfit has dominated F1 since the start of hybrid era in 2014 and has looked strong during the first week of 2017 pre-season testing topping the timesheets with Hamilton s new Running a year-old Ferrari engine may be a bigger handicap than previously thought given the year-on-year advances made at Mercedes Renault and Ferrari with their 2017 unit. Watch the start of Click here for more F1 2017 news. Hamilton has said Ferrari is the team to beat in 2017 but Vettel has responded by saying Mercedes remains top. but pre-season testing has shown it to be

Sauber F1 Team C36 Ferrari Marcus Ericsson ERI Pascal Wehrlein WEH 2017 Pre-Season Testing. Pre-season testing will consist of two periods of four days in which teams will get the chance to test their car on the Barcelona circuit aptly named Circuit de Barcelona-Catelunya. The first period will start February 27th and will finish March After such a long period without success it s understandable that Ferrari is playing down its strong testing performance. But don t be fooled the F1-75 looks like Red Bull s closest rival after Mercedes aren t taking Ferrari s underperformance in the first round of pre-season testing in Barcelona at face value and feel that they may be holding

That is despite the Scuderia having been consistently at or very near the top of the timesheet throughout every session of pre-season testing. The new F1-75 car has impressed both visually and Who was fastest Ferrari lead the way with Kimi Raikkonen the only man to go below 1m 19s around the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya. The Finn s time compares to Lewis Hamilton s 2016 pole mark of 1m 22s watch the two side by side here . Then comes Mercedes Williams and Red Bull all within a second of Raikkonen before Toro Rosso head the Ferrari Team Principal Mattia Binotto has played down his squad s strong start to pre-season running insisting the red cars are outsiders not favourites . F1 s most famous team ran reliably on the first day with Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz combining to give Ferrari the highest lap count - 153 - and the second and third

Mar 12 2022 4 13 PM. The business of predicting outcomes based on testing results fraught with peril. But while Red Bull ended Bahrain s pre-season test on top it appears to have different Circuit de Catalunya. Monday 27 February - Thursday 2 March 2017. Tuesday 7 March - Friday 10 March 2017. There will be live BBC Sport text commentary on all eight days of the two tests.How will massa complete 300 laps in two days at 40 when mercedes don t let any of their young drivers do more than 70 a day

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