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Ferrari ready to reap rewards of Bahrain test

The third round of the Formula 1 World Championship takes place at the Sakhir Circuit in Bahrain, a very familiar venue for Ferrari, as the track has been used regularly over the past few years for winter testing. In February of this year, Ferrari and Toyota were the only two squads running on this desert track.

"In a sport as competitive as Formula 1, any advantage we might have from our winter trip to the Gulf will probably have evaporated by the end of Friday's free practice, by which time the other teams will be on the pace, having been here in past years," said Ferrari technical director Aldo Costa. 

"It's not even as though the Scuderia can derive any tyre advantage as the winter test was all conducted on just one hard type of Bridgestone," he added. "The real advantage of the Sakhir winter test is that, although temperatures back at the start of the year were about ten degrees Celsius cooler than one can expect this weekend, the venue did offer very stable conditions, with consistent ambient and track temperatures and this stability is always a highly prized commodity when developing a new car."

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