Lewis Hamilton fastest on Day 1 at COTA Lewis Hamilton edged team-mate Nico Rosberg by the slenderest of margins to remain at the top of the timesheets at Austin’s Circuit of the Americas. Hamilton had eclipsed his title rival team-mate by almost three tenths of a second in the opening practice session but in the afternoon Rosberg managed to close the gap to just three thousandths of a second. Third place in the session went to Ferrari’s Fernando Alonso. It was Rosberg who went quickest in the opening part of the session on the medium tyre before the teams switched to the soft compound tyres with about 50 minutes to go. Rosberg again initially had the upper hand with Hamilton slotting...
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