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BARCELONA: Lewis Hamilton wrapped up his pre-season testing with Mercedes in eye-catching style on Saturday with a lap that was easily the fastest seen so far this year in Barcelona.
The 2008 Formula One world champion, who will make his Mercedes race debut in Melbourne on March 17, lapped a dry Circuit de Catalunya in one minute 20.558 seconds to top the penultimate day’s timesheets.
“We were able to get through all the test items that we wanted to achieve by the end of my programme,” he said. “There’s still a lot of work ahead of us to get to where we want to be but the team is doing a great job.
“The reliability, the mileage and the step-by-step improvements that we have achieved during the three tests are all very encouraging.
“Whilst we’ve been focusing on our own performance, we definitely haven’t seen the full potential of our competitors yet, so it’s difficult to predict where we might be.”
Published in The Express Tribune, March 4th, 2013.
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