Valtteri Bottas pic: Mercedes F1 Twitter Valtteri Bottas put his Mercedes fastest in the opening two practice sessions for this weekend’s Formula 1 Russian Grand Prix. Both 90-minute sessions saw a spate if incidents, the first including a nine minute red flag period after Nicholas Latifi found the wall at Turn 10. The Canadian lost the rear of his Williams before making contact with the wall, burying the car in the barriers. He was not the first driver to find the wall, with a similar fate having befallen Carlos Sainz around the 30 minute marker of the session. Dropping his wheels over the back of the kerb at Turn 7, the Spaniard spun and tagged the barriers with the rear of his McLaren...
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