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Ferrari has early edge over the rest, admits Bottas
Mercedes driver Valtteri Bottas has admitted that Ferrari has the edge so far in terms of performance and raw pace in pre-season testing at the Circuit be Barcelona-Catalunya. “They do seem very strong,” the Finn admitted before the start of the fourth day of the test. "Both short runs and long run." Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel and Charles Leclerc were the fastest drivers at work on Monday and Tuesday. By comparison, Mercedes has been looking strangely lacklustre by their own high standards, and rarely troubling the top - or even upper half - of the daily standings. There's been speculation that Ferrari has been deliberately running low fuel loads in order to unsettle their...
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