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Spain analysis - Ferrari strike back in style
After their disastrous Bahrain outing, Barcelona proved a near perfect weekend for Ferrari. As Fernando Alonso delighted his home fans with victory, team mate Felipe Massa joined him on the podium, a superb drive nullifying his grid penalty.
And as the Scuderia cut Red Bull's championship advantage to only 14 points, Kimi Raikkonen's second place for Lotus reduced Sebastian Vettel's lead atop the driver standings to just four
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Paddock Postcard from Barcelona
The Formula 1 Gran Premio de Espaņa 2013 kicks off Formula One racing's European season, and signals a gathering of the clans that always fills the Spanish paddock with familiar racing faces from across the world.
Ferrari boss Luca di Montezemolo made one of his rare visits, as did Daimler's Dieter Zetsche. Former world champions Alain Prost, Alan Jones, Sir Jackie Stewart and Jacques Villeneuve, joined Carlos Sainz, Sebastien Loeb, Adrian Fernandes, Allan McNish, Luis Perez-Sala, Oliver
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Qualifying analysis - will Mercedes carry their form into the race?
Tyre conservation is still the name of the game in Spain, and on Saturday many drivers were mindful of the need to save rubber for the race.
Thus while Mercedes' polesitter Nico Rosberg and the Ferrari and Lotus drivers made two Q3 runs, Lewis Hamilton, the Red Bull drivers, Sergio Perez and Paul di Resta made do with only one
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Friday analysis - Red Bull out to spoil Alonso's homecoming
The wet weather in Spain on Friday morning meant that the teams had their work cut out to assess their all-important upgrade packages in FP1, and thus they all had plenty of work to get through in the mercifully dry second session.
Three types of dry tyre were used during a busy afternoon's running - the medium compound, the revised hard compound and, for practice only, an unmarked hard prototype tyre. We take a team-by-team look at the early form in Barcelona
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Pre-Spain analysis - Ferrari play it cool in Catalunya
Despite Fernando Alonso's victory in China, and the fact that the Scuderia have scored a lot more points after the first four races than they had this time last year, Ferrari chief designer Nikolas Tombazis says that he would only score their start to the season at 60 percent.
"I think in general, the first results mean we can be reasonably optimistic about the rest of the season, with a sense that we can fight for wins and the championship," said Tombazis. "However, if I was to score our overall performance, I would only give it a six out of 10 and that's for two main reasons.
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