Although Lewis Hamilton and Valtteri Bottas ultimately finished one-two after Ferrari's Charles Leclerc had an engine issue, the Maranello cars had superior pace all weekend.

Allison admitted that Mercedes was fortunate to emerge with so many points, and made it clear that the team wants to make a big enough step that it can win on merit.

"A huge result for us," Allison said in a Mercedes video. "And a great relief therefore on a weekend where we were not that competitive to come back with such a strong haul of points.

"To come back with those points and also to come back with clear indications of what we need to do, and the directions we need to take to develop our car so we will not suffer the same sort of problems that we had with it in Bahrain.

"And of course, our aim will be tha

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