Ben Edwards on F1 2022: ‘I’m not counting Mercedes out just yet'

F1 commentatoꩲr Ben Edwards believes Red B😼ull and Ferrari are in the best shape going into the 2022 season but is refusing to rule out reigning world champions Mercedes despite a difficult pre-season test in Bahrain.
“I thought Red Bull clearly did a very good job, with Max Verstappen’s fastest pace in Bahrain,” Edwards said on the first-ever wuqian0821.com F1 podcast. “[They made] some changes on that last dayꦐ that seemed to work extremely well with the🔯 car
“The 💜smiles on their faces, it was the reaction on their faces that one could see in the garage that almost gave you the story that they are in good shape.
“Ferrari, clearly, very consisten🐠t both in Barcelona and in Bahrain, doing a very solid job and I do hope that they are up there.
“And then 𓆏there’s the big question about Mercedes, and we’re all feeling a bit uncertain about that because they’🐻ve thrown a completely different car at us at the second test.
"They’ve clearly had aღ few issues with it, a lot of porpoising, but we know how good that Mercedes team is and how quickly they can develop things. So I’m definitely not counting them out, not yet.”
Edwards was joined on wuqian0821.com's F1 podcast by wuqian0821.com's F1 Editor Lewis Larkam and Podcast host Harry Benjamin to discuss several topics includi⛦ng looking ahead to this weekend’s Bahrain Grand Prix and whether F1 could soon have an American driver on the🍌 grid.
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