Tyre management will be very important for race – Hembery Unusually for Spa, hot weather characterised both free practice sessions in the foothills of the Ardennes, with ambient temperatures peaking at 35 degrees centigrade and to 44 degrees asphalt in the afternoon. The teams ran all three nominated compounds today – medium, soft, and supersoft – with Red Bull’s Max Verstappen going fastest of all in the afternoon on the supersoft tyre, with a time of 1m48.085s that shattered last year’s FP2 benchmark of 1m49.385s. Nico Rosberg already beat that benchmark in FP1, where he made Formula 1 history by going fastest in an official session for the first time with a halo device...
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