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Bottas buoyant after finishing Barcelona test on top

Valtteri Bottas has said that he is eagerly waiting the return of Formula 1 next weekend after setting the fastest time on the second and final day of the first official in-season testing period of 2018. Bottas's time of a 1 minute 16.904 seconds was just enough to beat Scuderia Ferrari reserve Antonio Giovinazzi to top spot at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya – the Mercedes AMG Petronas Motorsport driver setting his fastest time on super-soft tyres as opposed to Giovinazzi finding his best performance on the hyper-soft compound. Reflecting on Wednesday's 'interesting' running, Bottas said that Mercedes used data collated from last weekend's Spanish Grand Prix as a baseline,...
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