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Austrian GP: Hamilton leads Verstappen in FP1

Mercedes Formula 1 driver Lewis Hamilton set the fastest-ever lap around the Red Bull Ring to top opening practice for the Austrian Grand Prix. The three-time world champion used soft tyres, the hardest of the three compounds available this weekend, to clock a 1m05.975s. That was just over two tenths faster than the circuit's previous fastest lap, which Hamilton set in the second part of qualifying last year. It also put him three tenths clear of Red Bull's Max Verstappen, who used supersoft tyres to leapfrog Valtteri Bottas late on and deny Mercedes a one-two. Verstappen had set the session's first benchmark, a 1m08.429s, and that early effort on softs kept him on top until the Mercedes...
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