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Barcelona Day 6: Bottas stays top Kimi crashes

New signing Valtteri Bottas put champions Mercedes on top of the timesheets on Wednesday with the fastest lap so far in Formula One's pre-season testing, while Kimi Raikkonen crashed his Ferrari. Bottas's best lap of 1:19.310 seconds came on supersoft tyres in the morning session, with the Finn then handing over to triple champion team mate Lewis Hamilton (79 laps) for the afternoon. The time was 0.395 faster than the best set last week, also by Bottas on ultrasoft tyres, and quicker than any Spanish Grand Prix pole position time since the Circuit de Catalunya layout was changed in 2007. It was also nearly three seconds faster than Hamilton's 2016 pole time. Bottas, who did 70 laps on...
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