Hamilton setback as world champion’s Mercedes breaks down in testing

Lewis Hamilton’s normally reliable Mercedes suffered a rare failure to hamper the six-time champion’s build-up to the new Formula One season. Taking over from team-mate Valtteri Bottas for the afternoon session on the second day of the second pre-season test at Barcelona’s Circuit de Catalunya, Hamilton managed just 14 laps in his W11 before grinding to a halt on track. The team said in a statement: “We’ve experienced an oil pressure anomaly which made the engine shut down as a...