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First F1 test leaves questions

Lewis Hamilton declared his new Mercedes to be the big sister of last year's temperamental title winner but Formula One's first pre-season test of 2018 still left plenty of room for conjecture. The four-times world champion, who can expect to start the campaign in Australia on March 25 as a favourite, said bad weather, a resurfaced and smoother track and heavier cars had made comparisons tricky. Hamilton was fastest over the opening four days at Barcelona's Circuit de Catalunya with a lap of one minute 19.333 seconds on Thursday, after snow and rain blew out Wednesday's track action. The time was quicker already than anything the Briton did in 2017 pre-season testing, when Mercedes were...
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