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Verstappen concerned over Mercedes-powered rivals' Bahrain pace

Max Verstappen fears that Mercedes-powered rivals will be a much tougher challenge for his Toro Rosso team in Bahrain than they were at the Australian Grand Prix. The Dutchman and team-mate Carlos Sainz excelled at Albert Park in qualifying and could have grabbed a top-five finish in the race had the team opted for a different strategy. But although the potential of the Ferrari-powered STR11 is clear, Verstappen thinks that the power demands of upcoming tracks like Bahrain will hand a bigger benefit to teams like Williams and Force India. When asked by Motorsport.com where he thought Toro Rosso stacked up in the pecking order after Melbourne, he said: “We could have been P5 behind the Red...
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