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Wolff admits Mercedes ran ‘a lot of fuel' in testing

Mar.23 Toto Wolff has confirmed reports that Mercedes ran with high fuel loads in the recent and sole pre-season test in Bahrain. Coupled with obvious handling problems, the reigning world champion team's lagging pace triggered the hypothesis that Red Bull is the obvious favourite heading into 2021. 'The fact that they didn't really align with the others in terms of fuel load shows that they must have a lot of confidence,' Red Bull's Dr Helmut Marko said last week. 'We assume that they still have a lot up their sleeves.' Marko also told Osterreich newspaper: 'If Mercedes drove with the amounts of fuel that we assume, then they are about on par with us.' Mercedes team boss Wolff does not...
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