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Vettel fastest in Hungary FP3 as Mercedes get in a spin

Sebastian Vettel set the fastest time in Free Practice 3 for the Hungarian Grand Prix with a record laptime of 1 minute 16.170 seconds, five-hundredths of a second quicker than Valtteri Bottas. Vettel's Scuderia Ferrari team-mate, Kimi Räikkönen, stood third ahead of the second Mercedes AMG Petronas Motorsport of Lewis Hamilton. Both Mercedes cars suffered spins at the Turn 6/7 chicane on their qualifying simulation programmes, Bottas even making slight contact with the wall. Räikkönen proved to be the early pacesetter in the first fifteen minutes on the ultra-soft tyres, before Bottas dipped into the 1:16 bracket. His joy was to be short-lived, Vettel beating the Mercedes' time by...
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