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Valtteri Bottas stated that the Sunday morning session “felt so much higher” as he continues to become familiar with the Mercedes W12 E Efficiency.

Mercedes made a removed from preferrred begin to testing, with a gear field situation inflicting main delays on the primary morning and Bottas finishing simply six laps consequently.

Nonetheless, there have been incremental indicators of enchancment since, with the Finn topping the Saturday afternoon times with a quickest lap of 1.30.289.

Bottas was again within the automotive on Sunday morning, finishing a formidable 86 laps, and he appeared inspired by what he noticed.

“We have been in a position to make up for the misplaced time from the primary day of testing,” he stated after ending his last run of pre-season testing. “Within the quick time, in fact, all the things was attainable.

“Yesterday we achieved 95% of what we got down to do, at this time 100 %. Now we simply should put the info in efficiency convert.”

He added: “This morning felt so much higher. We focused on lengthy runs and labored so much on the setup. We went in the best path. The automotive is in fact not but at 100 %, which might be uncommon at this level.

“The place precisely we’re is totally unknown. In fact we don’t know what the others are doing both. However my intestine feeling tells me that will probably be tight.”

Lewis Hamilton is again within the automotive for the ultimate session of pre-season testing this afternoon.

(Extra Reporting: Agnes Carlier).

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