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With less than two weeks to go until the start of the Australian Grand Prix race weekend, the teams are already starting to pack up and freight their equipment to Melbourne.

Most teams personnel, drivers and cars were headed back to their respective team headquarters in Europe. However some items were set for a much longer journey.

Here's a sneaky shot taken on the last day of pre-season testing at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya. It shows Red Bull getting a head start on shipping out their cargo to Melbourne.

And it really underscores how close we are to the start of the 2017 Formula One world championship. The teams are understandably getting nervous, but fans can hardly wait for the new season to get started - somewhere over the rainbow!

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Andrew Lewin

Andrew first became a fan of Formula 1 during the time when Michael Schumacher and Damon Hill were stepping into the limelight after the era of Alain Prost, Nigel Mansell and Aryton Senna. He's been addicted ever since, and has been writing about the sport now for nearly a quarter of a century for a number of online news sites. He's also written professionally about GP2 (now Formula 2), GP3, IndyCar, World Rally Championship, MotoGP and NASCAR. In his other professional life, Andrew is a freelance writer, social media consultant, web developer/programmer, and digital specialist in the fields of accessibility, usability, IA, online communities and public sector procurement. He worked for many years in magazine production at Bauer Media, and for over a decade he was part of the digital media team at the UK government's communications department. Born and raised in Essex, Andrew currently lives and works in south-west London.