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Its got to be a joke. I can see the RBPT ICE being slightly ahead on peak power but for Mercedes to be 2% behind is science fiction. The only way its true is if Mercedes were forced to nerf the peak performance of the ICE to comply with the revised CR test - something we wouldn't really the the impact of till Barcelona.