Toto Wolff has confirmed reports that Mercedes ran with high fuel loads in the recent and sole pre-season test in Bahrain. “The fact that they didn’t really align with the others in terms of fuel load shows that they must have a lot of confidence,” Red Bull’s Dr Helmut Marko said last week. “We assume that they still have a lot up their sleeves.”. Marko also told Osterreich newspaper: “If Mercedes drove with the amounts of fuel that we assume, then they are about on par with us.”. “We have performed very well for the last few years, so now everyone says that we are hiding the speed of the car,” he told the Austrian broadcaster ORF.

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