The Mercedes AMG Petronas Formula One Team found themselves on top in changing conditions in Free Practice 1 at the Circuit of The Americas courtesy of Lewis Hamilton. Hamilton's best time of the session, a 1:36.335 on the super-soft tyres, was set towards the end of the session as the track dried and was enough to see him finish five-tenths ahead of his title rival – Scuderia Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel and a further few hundredths clear of his Mercedes team-mate Valtteri Bottas. The Red Bull Racing duo of Max Verstappen and Daniel Ricciardo found themselves fourth and 16th respectively, and will have to show improvement to back up the latter's suggestion that the team will have the...
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