Valtteri Bottas put Mercedes back to the top of the timesheets as Formula 1 pre-season testing concluded at Barcelona. Sign up for F1 TV and get a 25% earlybird discount. Single-lap performance runs were the order of the day for most teams and following a lull after the lunch break as race simulations were conducted, Bottas shot to the top order with the second-fastest overall time of the winter The Finn posted two quick laps in succession on Pirelli’s softest available C5 compound, with his best effort - a 1m16.196s - shading Red Bull’s Max Verstappen by just 0.073s. Verstappen set a pair of eye-catching times to end up just 0.188s off Bottas’ benchmark on the C3 Medium compound,...
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