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FP1: Vettel draws first blood ahead of Hamilton

Sebastian Vettel put in a late effort to start the final race of the season with a P1 as he edged Lewis Hamilton in Abu Dhabi on Friday. Friday's first practice may have signalled the beginning of the end for the 2017 F1 season but that didn't stop teams are running updates. Ferrari trialed a new diffuser that came with a crazy array of aero sensors on Kimi Raikkonen's car while Mercedes ran a new front wing.  Lewis Hamilton on the soft tyres led the way at the start before losing out to Raikkonen, running without the sensors, and Daniel Ricciardo. With the ultrasoft Pirellis bolted onto his SF70H, Raikkonen clocked a 1:40.638 before lowering the benchmark time to a 1:39.841....
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