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‘Secret test' gave Mercedes a second says Marko

By Editor on Sunday, May 26, 2013 Dr Helmut Marko says Mercedes could have gained a one second per lap advantage by testing between the Spanish and Monaco grands prix. A controversy has erupted over Mercedes' ‘secret' three-day, 1000km tyre test in Barcelona, before Nico Rosberg strolled from pole to victory in Monaco. Red Bull's Marko told German broadcaster Sky that Pirelli did not ask the world champion team if it wanted to conduct the running. 'We are very unhappy,' said the Austrian. 'When we test for three days, we go a second faster — that's what Adrian Newey says. 'It definitely helped them — you can see that they had no tyre problems today. That's no accident,'...
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