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Barcelona Test: Vettel and Ferrari tops as Mercedes fumble

The usually faultless Mercedes experienced a rare blip Friday during an otherwise impressive eight days of preseason testing that showed the car's outstanding reliability ahead of the season-opening Australian Grand Prix. The incident was small enough not to cause any concern at Mercedes. It happened when Lewis Hamilton stalled the W07 car at the pit lane exit shortly before the end of the morning session. While four-time F1 champion Sebastian Vettel clocked a leading time of 1:22.852 seconds in his smooth-running Ferrari, Hamilton's car had a transmission problem and went back to the garage for further assessment. That delayed teammate Nico Rosberg's afternoon stint by a couple of hours,...
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