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Ferrari test pace gets Wolff's attention
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It was no real shock to see Mercedes fastest in the first four-day pre-season test at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya. Valtteri Bottas' lap of 1:19.705s on Wednesday was a clear statement of intent from the team for the 2017 season. But the big surprise was just how close Ferrari was able to run them. Sebastian Vettel's best time was just a quarter of a second back, even though he was running soft compounds compared to ultrasofts for Bottas. "Ferrari is really fast," Mercedes boss Toto Wolff admitted to Osterreich newspaper on Friday. But Wolff added that it was still far too soon to really tell how the teams compared with one another. "Since we have...
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