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Mercedes will change testing approach in 2012

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Mercedes will take a different approach to their pre-season testing programme for 2012, after a late update this season left them confused, according to team principal Ross Brawn.

In 2011, the Anglo-German team tested a basic package in the first three pre-season tests, leaving them just one test, or three days, to get to grips and understand a major upgrade.

Brawn admits the approach was the wrong one, and something they aim to avoid for the coming tests in February.

“That is one of the things we did learn,” said Brawn about their 2011 approach. “It sounds like a good idea but some of the problems we had at the beginning with running the car…

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