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Mercedes and Bottas fastest as Barcelona test closes
Valtteri Bottas was the fastest man at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya for Mercedes AMG Petronas Motorsport, drawing the first, two-day in-season test of 2018 to a close. Bottas's time of a 1 minute 16.904 seconds, set in the morning session on super-soft tyres, was six-hundredths of a second faster than Scuderia Ferrari reserve driver Antonio Giovinazzi, with McLaren F1 Team protégé Lando Norris recording the third fastest time, over a second shy of Bottas and Giovinazzi. Bottas traded places with the Italian on numerous occasions before the lunchtime break, the latter unable to beat Bottas's best time even when using the hyper-soft compound – which will make its race debut at...
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