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Mercedes missing tyre test due to budgetary concerns

Article To news overview © Mercedes Mercedes will miss an 18 inch tyre test at Paul Ricard next week, due to concerns about the budget cap. Mercedes were scheduled to head to Paul Ricard for two days of track time next week, running the 2019 mule car for the 18 inch tyre test as part of Pirelli's preparations for next year. The test was scheduled to be a wet weather tyre test. However, the team have pulled out of the test, as Toto Wolff confirmed during the Monaco GP press conference. "Yes, that's right. We are trying to make the budget cap which is not trivial," Wolff explained. "And we couldn't take the costs related to the to the tyre test and we wouldn't have been able...
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