Mercedes Formula 1 driver Valtteri Bottas once again set the pace in second practice for the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix as Max Verstappen stopped on track and Charles Leclerc crashed. Bottas, who took pole at Imola last year, ended FP2 fastest with a 1m15.551s to edge out seven-time world champion Lewis Hamilton by just 0.010s as Mercedes completed another 1-2 to round out Friday practice at Imola, while AlphaTauri’s Pierre Gasly set a very impressive time to get within 0.078s of the Finn’s benchmark in third. Red Bull suffered another setback as Max Verstappen lost the majority of the session - arguably the most important practice of the weekend - when his RB16B ground to a halt on the...
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