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Boffins toil away in the factories, Lewis Hamilton hones his fitness on the ski slopes... All is quiet preparation now but the Formula One season will burst into life again at pre-season testing in Bahrain on February 23rd.
What can we expect when the roar returns? Sportsmail casts an eye down the pit straight for answers.
What Formula One most craves is to live up to the advertisement pinned on to a St Kilda Beach bus shelter in Melbourne last year. 'Every good story has a sequel,' it read.
The new Formula 1 series will burst into life at pre-season testing, but what can we expect?
Accompanying the words were the faces of Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen, as vanquished and victor alike were still wiping blood off themselves after the infamy of Abu Dhabi at the close of the 2021 season. A rematch was the hope on every lip.
Alas, Mercedes went down a misguided design route in 2022 when faced with the massive overhaul in regulations, a cul-de-sac they spent a season trying to escape, with significant but limited success. Red Bull and Ferrari possessed the pace. Ferrari imploded. Verstappen hit a sweet spot and he romped to his second title.
So what hope is there that the bitterest rivalry on the grid will resurface this coming season? Red Bull and Verstappen hold the advantage in light of the stable regulations. Yet, yet.
How badly will Red Bull be hit by the restrictions they face ahead of the upcoming season?
The world champions are battered twice over. First, under a handicap system intended to flatten the field. This limits wind tunnel runs and computational fluid dynamics testing, with the top team of the previous year hit hardest in an incremental scale from top to
