Valtteri Bottas Mercedes has closed out the first in-season Formula 1 test of the season fastest courtesy of Valtteri Bottas. The Finn set a best lap of 1:16.904 to head Ferrari development driver Antonio Giovinazzi by little more than 0.05s, both drivers completing nearly 150 laps of running. 'Today was really interesting, and we got through our program fairly smoothly,' said Bottas. 'We had a good baseline from last weekend and used it to work on different set-ups, trying out bigger changes than we normally would on a race weekend. 'We also tried to gather some information on the tyres, as we will see similarly smooth tarmac at Silverstone and Paul Ricard. 'I enjoyed being back in the...
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