The absolute dominator of Formula 1 for the past six seasons, he was the first to return to action after the pandemic stopped. Valtteri Bottas shot at Silverstone with the W09, the prototype with which the Silver Arrows dominated at his whim in the 2018 World Cup. On Wednesday will come the turn of Lewis Hamilton, the great favorite for a championship that will be launched on 5 July at the Red Bull Ring.

The last time an F1 roar had been heard was on February 28, the date of the last test session in Barcelona. Since then, four months of endless silence has not even been broken in Melbourne, where a positive by the McLaren team led to the cancellation of the Australian GP.

Once again, Mercedes has taken the initiative with respect to its rivals with this test at Silverstone, a circuit located about 30 kilometers from its Brackley factory. The idea of ​​Toto Wolff, maximum sports manager, is that all the members of his team become familiar with the sanitary protocols to which they must be submitted starting next month in Austria.

Ferrari, soon at Fiorano

In this way, all the staff of the German complex has worked with the mandatory equipment, from face masks to face protection screens. The goal is for everyone to become familiar with the novel security environment devised by the International Federation (FIA) and Liberty Media, the company that owns F1.

The reigning world champion of constructors decided to put the W08 on the asphalt, since it has specifications almost traced to the model with which it will play this championship. In this way, Mercedes saves the bullet to test the W11 in the two days of private tests allowed by the regulations.

Ferrari will also bet on this strategy and will ride in Fiorano in the coming days with Charles Leclerc and Sebastian Vettel, at the wheel of the SF71H, the car with which the German finished second in the 2018 World Cup.

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