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Mercedes: We need a faster car, simple as that

Formula 1 champions Mercedes say their car is not stronger than Red Bull in any one area despite Lewis Hamilton winning Sunday's season-opening race in Bahrain. Red Bull's Max Verstappen was fastest in every practice session in Bahrain and took pole position before finishing second as Mercedes made the most of clever strategy and Hamilton's skill. Mercedes trackside engineering head Andrew Shovlin said the team were already deep in discussion about what they needed to do better. 'We don´t really have any strengths relative to them, is what I would say,' he added when asked which areas the car needed to improve in. 'We´ve had a lot of years where we´ve been able to rely on straight-line...
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