“We have had really positive test days and we learned a lot, and hopefully we start the weekend well and see where we end up. Ferrari’s mantra for the test seemed to be “so far, so good”. “We have had a good test doing all the test we wanted to do,” Sainz said. “Having a good test doesn’t mean having a good car, but we had a good test.”. But there were some signs that, while Red Bull look to be favourites, Ferrari are not that far behind. “He arrived with very clear ideas and understands a team that’s very big,” Leclerc said of Vasseur. And, on the C3 tyre, Hamilton was slower only than the two Red Bulls. And Red Bull’s second team head into the season under a cloud of their own uncertainty.

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