Lewis Hamilton bounced back somewhat from a 'poor' showing in FP1 head of the Russian GP but still has work to do. Hamilton finished FP1 all the way down in P19 as he focused on race pace after flat-spotting his tyres shortly after the session restarted following a Virtual Safety Car delay, before rising to P2 in the afternoon session. He still has 0.267s though to find on team-mate Valtteri Bottas who topped both sessions on Friday at the Sochi Autodrom. 'I didn't feel like I was particularly quick today,' Hamilton told reporters in Sochi. 'It didn't start off very good in FP1, I was pretty poor out there, had a lock-up at Turn 1 on the soft tyre, then on the hard tyre and completely...
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