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Barcelona Day 3: Bottas sizzles in the morning

Valtteri Bottas set the fastest lap of pre-season as Mercedes continued to ramp up their dominance on day three of the opening Formula One test. The reigning world champions have been the class of the field in Barcelona this week and they showed little signs of easing up on their relentless pace on Wednesday. Bottas, who hands over the reins to his Mercedes team-mate Lewis Hamilton on Wednesday afternoon, posted a quickest time of one minute and 19.705 seconds and completed an impressive 75 laps of the Circuit de Catalunya. Indeed Bottas' time would have been quick enough to seal pole position for every race staged here since the configuration of the circuit changed in 2007. Red Bull's...
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