Valtteri Bottas led a heavily disrupted second practice session in Portugal as Pierre Gasly suffered a big fire while Max Verstappen and Lance Stroll collided. Bottas, who also led the way earlier on Friday at the new-for-2020 Algarve Circuit, clocked a time of 1:17.940s to finish over half a second clear of Verstappen. Drivers only had a limited window in which to record quick times due to a third of the session being devoted to 2021 tyre testing, before two incidents led to lengthy stoppages. Half an hour of tyre testing The first half an hour of the 90-minute session was dedicated to tyre testing on behalf of sole supplier Pirelli. All 20 drivers ran the 2021 Hard tyre prototype, with...
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