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Mercedes duo encouraged by W09 reliability

Mercedes duo Valtteri Bottas and Lewis Hamilton lauded the squad’s reliability after the pair combined to amass the most mileage of any team on the first day of the second test. Bottas piloted the W09 during the morning session at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, before Hamilton took over for the afternoon, the pair racking up 177 laps, six more than Ferrari. Bottas evaluated tyre-dependent set-up changes while Hamilton simulated recovering from a variety of potential sensor failures, as well as the usual assessment of aerodynamic updates. Bottas finished his morning session two-tenths of a second behind Sebastian Vettel, which remained the benchmark for the remainder of the day,...
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