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Bottas: Mercedes are in a league of their own

Valtteri Bottas has warned Mercedes is 'in a league of its own' ahead of the 2016 Formula 1 World Championship as the team flexed its pace on the first day of the second pre-season test. With teams expected to bring more performance runs into their programmes in this final four-day test, Williams trialled the ultra-soft for the first time, Bottas setting the second quickest time with a 1min 23.229secs. Four tenths off Sebastian Vettel's ultra-soft effort in the Ferrari last week, crucially Bottas was also slower than Mercedes' Nico Rosberg today by two tenths, albeit with the German using soft rubber. Asked whether he felt that it is Mercedes showing what it is potentially capable of, the...
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