Valtteri Bottas edged out Sebastian Vettel in a Spanish GP first practice which featured a raft of upgrades, with Mercedes and Ferrari appearing evenly-matched with their revised cars. Bottas, running Mercedes' new aero package, topped the timesheets with a 1:17.891, one tenth ahead of Vettel, whose Ferrari team-mate Charles Leclerc was a further tenth adrift. Vettel and Leclerc also had updates, with Ferrari debuting their new engine two races earlier than planned, while also introducing new parts on their chassis. Lewis Hamilton, however, couldn't join the tight battle at the top, finishing more than half a second off the pace as he struggled with tyre wear on his crucial flying lap....
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