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Mercedes treads carefully

MERCEDES OVERCAME A faster Red Bull on race day in Bahrain through a bold early stopping strategy which vaulted Lewis Hamilton ahead of early leader and pole-sitter Max Verstappen.

Making the first of two stops from 1.8sec behind Verstappen on the 13th lap of 56 gave Hamilton track position. The high degradation rate of the tyres around the notoriously

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