Valtteri Bottas continued to set the pace when he topped the timing screens at the end of the third and final free practice session of the French Grand Prix weekend, at the Circuit Paul Ricard in Le Castellet. The Mercedes driver's best lap of 1:30.159 was four-hundredths of a second faster than teammate Lewis Hamilton in second. Making it a silver clean-sweep of three free practice sessions. Charles Leclerc was third fastest, fractionally faster than Sebastian Vettel in the sister Ferrari. Ominously the pair were four tenths shy of where they need to be to challenge their rivals and prevent another whitewash. Vettel struggled to find the sweetspot, his discomfort in the car was...
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