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Sainz baffled by top teams' mileage after STR's troubled day

Toro Rosso driver Carlos Sainz Jr. said he doesn’t understand how rival Formula 1 teams managed to complete so many laps on the first day of 2017 pre-season testing. Toro Rosso’s car drew attention at its launch on Sunday, particularly for some design features it has in common with the latest Mercedes, but the team had a troubled first day that Sainz put down to “a little bit of everything”. While the Spaniard managed 51 laps, he was amazed at the mileage achieved by other teams, with Mercedes (152), Ferrari (128) and Williams (103) all surpassing 100 laps.  “We were planning to do more laps than we did,” Sainz told reporters in the Barcelona paddock.  “We found a few issues...
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