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Mercedes plans updates for season opener

It's a fact of life that the car seen when the wraps are removed at the launch bears little resemblance to the car packed away at the end of pre-season testing, and that that car features a number of changes when it heads out on to the track at the season opener. Though the launch and testing may seem a lifetime ago, Mercedes has revealed that when the W11 rolls out in Austria in two weeks, in good old F1 tradition, it will feature a number of updates. 'If you imagine where the launch car was and the car that would have gone to Australia, that was frozen around about Christmas,' says the team's technical boss, James Allison in a video issued by the German team today. 'There was the whole...
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