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Hear Manor fire up its 2016 F1 car

Manor has become the latest team to release a video of its 2016 F1 car being fired up ahead of the first test.

With testing set to get underway in less than a week, a number of teams are finishing car builds and firing up for the first time before heading to Barcelona. Following Mercedes' video of its new power unit being fired up - complete with its exhaust layout for 2016 - Manor has followed suit with an audio clip of its new car.

The MRT05 is the first new car from Manor for two years after it ran a year-old car - featuring a 2014 Ferrari engine - with updated nose in 2015 as the team exited administration.

The new car is powered by a Mercedes power unit and will also feature a Williams gearbox as part of a new technical partnership which is expected to see the team deliver its most competitive car to date.

Manor has confirmed Pascal Wehrlein as one of its race drivers for 2016 but is yet to announce who will partner the Mercedes youngster this coming season.

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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.