Bahrain Grand Prix – Red Bull's Daniel Ricciardo set the early pace in Sakhir ahead of Mercedes' Valtteri Bottas and Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen. With the top three teams – Mercedes, Ferrari and Red Bull – all choosing to set times on the soft-compound tyre, Ricciardo registered a lap time of 1:31.060 to top the opening session. The Australian rose to the top of the time sheets in the final twenty minutes of the session to usurp Bottas' early effort by three tenths of a second. Ferrari were hot on the heels of the Mercedes driver; Raikkonen's best lap was within one tenth of a second from his fellow countryman. The early championship leader, Sebastian Vettel, finished a few...
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