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F1 2013 – Mercedes: Young driver test ban will hurt us

Despite their rivals insisting their punishment for “test-gate” was too light handed, Ross Brawn has stated that by missing the young driver test Mercedes will be hurt.Speaking to Autosport, Brawn said, 'We've been looking at the consequences of us missing the young driver test, because we had a pretty comprehensive technical programme planned,''We are now looking internally at how to recover the loss of the programme, and I am not sure we will. Some of the things we wanted to do are just not feasible over a race weekend, so there will be a tangible loss to the team in not doing the young driver test.'It is unfortunate the spin that some teams are putting on it that the punishment is...
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