Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton has gone fastest in the second free practice session at Austin using the ultrasoft tyre, ahead of Red Bull's Max Verstappen, following a morning FP1 session that started in damp conditions. This meant that all the drivers began the day's action using the intermediates (with just one car selecting the wets) before moving onto the slicks for the second half of FP1 and the whole of FP2. The drivers were able to test a prototype softer intermediate compound in the morning. Data has now to be analysed. These tyres used an unaltered construction. Hamilton's fastest lap on the ultrasofts in FP2 was also the fastest-ever lap of the Circuit of the Americas, beating...
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