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AUSTIN, Texas -- The University of Texas president offered support Wednesday for beleaguered football coach Charlie Strong ahead of the Longhorns rivalry game against Oklahoma.Had a great call w/ Coach Strong. Were behind our student-athletes and coaches as they prepare for OU and rest of the season, President Greg Fenves tweeted .Strong is 13-16 in three seasons and under mounting pressure to turn things around. Strong demoted defensive coordinator Vance Bedford this week after the Longhorns gave up 50 and 49 points in consecutive losses.After last weeks loss at Oklahoma State, athletic director Mike Perrin told a reporter he needed to evaluate what happened. A school spokesman said the comments were about the coaching staff needing to evaluate the game.Fenves statement is notable in that it only addresses this season. Strong has two more years left on a guaranteed contract that pays him more than $5 million per season. A Fenves spokesman said the president would have no further comment.Fenves didnt hire Strong but is personally invested in his success. Fenves surprised many when he flew with Strong and Perrin to Tulsa, Oklahoma, last December to woo offensive coordinator Sterlin Gilbert to the Longhorns after consecutive losing seasons.Texas started the 2016 with a rousing overtime win over then-No. 10 Notre Dame. But after a 2-0 start, the Longhorns rank among the worst defensive teams in the country and a loss Saturday would drop them to 0-2 in the Big 12. Custom Seattle Mariners Jerseys . Soukalova missed only one target and completed the 15-kilometre course in 40 minutes, 32.6 seconds for both victories in this seasons individual discipline. Darya Domracheva of Belarus was second, 34. Denard Span Jersey . 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In a carbon-copy of the world champions ominous start to testing last year, when the W06 topped 150 laps on its debut, Hamilton clocked 156 around the Circuit de Catalunya as he finished second to Ferrari rival Sebastian Vettel on the timesheet. No other car managed more than 87 laps.With Mercedes not starting to focus on performance until Tuesday at the earliest, Hamilton said he could never remember such a successful start in his nine-year F1 career. Its been an amazing day, a beaming Hamilton told reporters afterwards.Ive never had a Day One practice like today. To get in a new car and have no problems is just a remarkable job by the team. So, for me, it was encouraging.But I tell you - 150 laps is quite long here! Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton was impressed with his new Mercedes on day one of pre-season testing in Barcelona Mondays running represented the first time Hamilton had taken to the track in an official session since finishing second to team-mate Nico Rosberg in the seeason-ending Abu Dhabi GP last November.ddddddddddddAfter clinching 2015s world championship with three rounds to spare, Hamilton was beaten in the final three races of the season and voiced concerns that a change on the W06 had adversely affected its handling.Day One report: Vettel outpaces HamiltonThere was something Lewis Hamilton didnt like on the car at the end of last year, reported Sky F1s Ted Kravitz before testing at the Circuit de Catalunya commenced. He needs to understand this car and he will know within the first two or three laps whether it has same suspension characteristics he didnt get on with last year or if it is a completely new start.Speaking at the end of the day, Hamilton said Mercedes had not started to focus on set-up work yet, but the baseline was inevitably the same as the end of 2015. Were not been working on that, weve just been working on mileage, he said.What we would have finished last season with is what well be starting with this year. So Im not able just yet to be able to just yet to be able to try to find the optimum set-up or get used to what we had before. But the time will come.Rosberg, who was present at the track throughout Monday after the W07s unveiling, takes over testing duties for Mercedes on Tuesday, with Hamilton back in the car on Wednesday.Sky Sports F1 Digital team will be providing live commentary from dawn until dusk on all four days of both Barcelona tests while Sky Sports News HQ will also deliver live updates from trackside. F1 testing updates Follow all the action as it happens in Barcelona Also See: Follow live updates from testing Mercedes reveal the W07 ' ' '