First, the all-too-familiar caveat: pre-season Formula 1 testing is notoriously unreliable as a definitive guide to form, and with only three consecutive days of running in Bahrain this year the intensity was heightened for each of the 10 teams last weekend as they worked through their individual programmes. Differing fuel loads, engine modes and agendas on each day make comparisons almost impossible as teams engaged in bouts of navel-gazing to learn as much as possible about their new cars in the least amount of time, only looking up briefly to snatch a glimpse of each other’s.
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