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Data from the first winter test tend to suggest that Ferrari was sandbagging at Jerez.
Germany's Auto Motor und Sport on Friday revealed that, having studied the data from the recent opening winter test, the top five places in terms of top speed were occupied by Mercedes-powered cars.
Topping the lot was the newly Mercedes-powered Williams' Felipe Massa, who tripped the radar at 286 km/h on the front straight, and 307 km/h on the fastest part of the southern Spanish circuit.
In contrast, the nearest Ferrari-powered car was the works F14 T driven by Kimi Raikkonen, with just 268 km/h on the straight and a top speed of 289 km/h -- a difference of 18km/h down on the leading Mercedes-Benz machine.
Fastest lap time of the Mercedes-powered car:
Kevin Magnussen, McLaren-Mercedes: 1m23.276
Fastest lap time of a Mercedes AMG W05:
Lewis Hamiton: 1m23.952
Fastest lap time of a Ferrari-powered car:
Kimi Raikkonen, Ferrari F14 T: 1m24.812
Auto Motor und Sport's Michael Schmidt said Ferrari has admitted it did not deploy full power at Jerez, where the all-new and sophisticated V6 'power units' were getting the first real running.
Mercedes' Niki Lauda, however, said there was no sandbagging in the silver camp.
"We went to the limit that we could, as it makes no sense to go deliberately slowly. You learn nothing (from that)," said the great Austrian and Mercedes team chairman.
Data from the first winter test tend to suggest that Ferrari was sandbagging at Jerez.
Germany's Auto Motor und Sport on Friday revealed that, having studied the data from the recent opening winter test, the top five places in terms of top speed were occupied by Mercedes-powered cars.
Topping the lot was the newly Mercedes-powered Williams' Felipe Massa, who tripped the radar at 286 km/h on the front straight, and 307 km/h on the fastest part of the southern Spanish circuit.
In contrast, the nearest Ferrari-powered car was the works F14 T driven by Kimi Raikkonen, with just 268 km/h on the straight and a top speed of 289 km/h -- a difference of 18km/h down on the leading Mercedes-Benz machine.
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| Kimi Raikkonen, Ferrari F14 T. (Photo: WRi2) |
Fastest lap time of the Mercedes-powered car:
Kevin Magnussen, McLaren-Mercedes: 1m23.276
Fastest lap time of a Mercedes AMG W05:
Lewis Hamiton: 1m23.952
Fastest lap time of a Ferrari-powered car:
Kimi Raikkonen, Ferrari F14 T: 1m24.812
Auto Motor und Sport's Michael Schmidt said Ferrari has admitted it did not deploy full power at Jerez, where the all-new and sophisticated V6 'power units' were getting the first real running.
Mercedes' Niki Lauda, however, said there was no sandbagging in the silver camp.
"We went to the limit that we could, as it makes no sense to go deliberately slowly. You learn nothing (from that)," said the great Austrian and Mercedes team chairman.