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Bottas leads FP1 as Verstappen crashes out
Valtteri Bottas topped the first session at Baku and flushed away fears that Mercedes were slowly dropping down the pecking order. The Finn didn't have much of a margin over Daniel Ricciardo though, with the Australian coming very close to the fastest lap time as well. Ricciardo's lap was an interesting message to Bottas, as he managed to do his lap on super soft tyres, contrary to Bottas being on the softer ultra soft compound. While you'd expect Mercedes and Red Bull at the front, Force India were surprisingly firmly among the top 6, with Perez going third fastest, and Ocon 5th, sandwishing Lewis Hamilton on the timing sheet. The pink cars have been searching for performance in earlier...
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