Niki Lauda says Mercedes has work to do to catch up with Ferrari. Although Valtteri Bottas won in Russia, Lewis Hamilton struggled and the Brackley based team thinks it is because the Ferrari is better managing the new Pirelli tyres. “Sometimes we have a car of two parts,” team chairman Lauda told Germany’s Auto Motor und Sport, “with a tyre window at the front and another at the rear.”

A team engineer said that although Hamilton struggled at Sochi, there has been progress in how Mercedes understands the tyres. “Ferrari is still ahead,” the engineer said, “but we are good at understanding problems and drawing conclusions.

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