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Bottas leaves rivals in the dust mid-day in Barcelona!
Mercedes and Valtteri Bottas turned up the heat on the final day of pre-season testing, with the Finn leading the field by a comfortable margin at the mid-day point. Bottas set a new benchmark on Friday morning, laying down a 1m15.732s on the C4 soft Pirelli tyre that left Renault's Esteban Ocon 1.370s behind, while Racing Point's Lance Stroll was third, 1.606s adrift from the Mercedes. Times to follow... Bottas' impressive time was just over three tenths shy of the fastest lap ever achieved around the Circuit de Catalunya, also courtesy of the Mercedes driver in 2019. AlphaTauri's Daniil Kvyat concluded his morning fourth, just a few tenths ahead of Red Bull's Max Verstappen, with the...
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