Lewis Hamilton set the early pace in Brazil, heading the timing sheets in Free Practice 1 ahead of his Mercedes AMG Petronas Formula One Team colleague Valtteri Bottas and Scuderia Ferrari‘s Kimi Räikkönen. Hamilton's blistering 1:09.202 will surely be beaten as the weekend progresses, but it was enough to earn a new ultimate track record at the Autódromo José Carlos Pace. Bottas ran the four-time World Champion close, ending the session a tenth shy, with Räikkönen over half-a-second off of Hamilton. In the early stages of the session, a flurry of cars flocked onto the Interlagos track, bathed in brilliant morning sunshine – Max Verstappen set the first lap in anger, with...
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