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Feature: Biggest pre-season test shocks

– With just a few days until the class of 2016 begin pre-season running at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, GPUpdate.net reflects on some of the biggest testing surprises in Formula 1 over the years.Unlike road car manufacturers, Formula 1 teams, increasingly across recent campaigns, have to debut their brand new, untried machines and test them in full view of the watching world.For some, pre-season testing remains smooth, though most hit a stumbling block, for others it can be weeks of despair as everything goes wrong, while some deliberately flatter to deceive...McLaren – 1988 McLaren started the 1988 pre-season with the MP4/3B, as the team pushed to the limits with the...
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