The fact that neither Lewis Hamilton nor Valtteri Bottas used Pirelli hypersoft compound tyres during the eight days of testing in Barcelona was deliberate as the world champion team believe that the tyre was good for one hot lap and as this was not on their agenda in Spain they never ran the pink band tyres.  The top five times set in Barcelona on the last couple of days of testing were set by drivers using the hypersofts, but Mercedes elected not to run the tyres at all. Bottas and Hamilton set their best times on ultrasoft tyres but were 1.2 seconds off the top time set by Ferrari driver Sebastian Vettel. The Silver Arrows duo focusing on race simulation runs and race pace, with no...
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