F1 commentator Ben Edwards believes Red Bull and Ferrari are in the best shape going into the 2022 s♏eason but isꦬ 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 mahbx.com F🎉1 podcast. “[They made] some chꦜanges on that last day that seemed to work extremely well with the car

“The smiles on their fac🍰es, it was the reaction on their faces that one could s🃏ee in the garage that almost gave you the story that they are in good shape. 

“Ferrari, clearly, very con🍌sistent both in Barcelona and in Bahrain, doing a very solid job and I do hope that꧙ they are up there. 

“And then there’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 a few issues with it, a lot of porpoising, but we know how good that Mercedes team is and how quic♉kly they can develop things. So I’m definitely not counting them out, not yet.”

Edwards was joined on mahbx.com's F1 podcast by mahbx.com's F⛎1 Editor Lewis Larkam and Podcast host Harry Benjamin to discuss several topics including looking ahead to this weeken⛄d’s Bahrain Grand Prix and whether F1 could soon have an American driver on the grid. 

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