Mercedes finally topped a testing timesheet for
the first time in 2015 as the world champions displayed an ominous turn
of speed to shatter the fastest time seen at Barcelona this winter.
While
the pace of the sleek W06 had not been in doubt up until Day Two of the
final test, the fact the team had exclusively run on the slower medium
and hard compounds meant that neither Nico Rosberg nor Lewis Hamilton
had truly light up a timesheet in the opening nine days of action.
However,
that all changed on Friday afternoon at the Circuit de Catalunya as for
the first time Mercedes bolted on the quicker soft tyres onto the W06
and Rosberg immediately clocked a blistering 1:22.792 time, a lap which
was 0.7s quicker than the previous best set by Williams’ Felipe Massa
on the same compound.
With Rosberg also adding a
similarly-impressive 1:22.8 soon after, and the car once more completing
more than 100 laps during the test day, Mercedes have emphatically
confirmed their status as the team to beat heading into the new season
with two days of pre-season testing to run.
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