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F1 summer report card: from top of the class Mercedes to the team that must do better

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"If you can do it once, you can do it twice." As the paddock disperses for its traditional mid-season three-week break, the race is on to catch Kimi AntonelliMercedes came into the season as favourites and have lived up to the billing. Their car has been dominant with eight wins from 11 meetings, a strike rate greater perhaps even than the team had expected.

Despite the rather skewed conclusions of the Aduo engine assessment, which declared the Red Bull the cream of the crop (on the basis of internal combustion output rather than overall capacity) the Mercedes power unit as a whole, including the hybrid electrical element that is now so vital, is without doubt the class of the field.

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