Lewis Hamilton is encouraged by Mercedes’ progress and expects his team to make it a three-way fight with Ferrari and Red Bull at this weekend’s Formula 1 Singapore Grand Prix. Mercedes struggled for pace at last year’s race in Singapore, when the reigning world champions’ were consigned to the third-row of the grid after a difficult qualifying in which Hamilton finished over half a second adrift of poleman Sebastian Vettel, before sealing an unlikely win in what turned out to be a dramatic race. Fast-forward a year and Mercedes is looking better positioned to challenge Ferrari and Red Bull. Mercedes did not run the Hypersoft compound in opening practice but Hamilton was able to...
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