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F1 Mexico: Bottas ahead of Hamilton in Opening Free Practice

Valtteri Bottas finished over four-tenths of a second faster than his Mercedes AMG Petronas Formula One Team team-mate Lewis Hamilton in first free practice for the Mexican Grand Prix, with both Red Bull Racing drivers not too far behind. The two Mercedes team-mates set their fastest laps of the session on the Ultrasoft Pirelli tyre with Bottas faster throughout the session compared to Hamilton, who only needs to finish fifth in the race to win his fourth Formula 1 Drivers' Championship this weekend. Both Max Verstappen and Daniel Ricciardo, who were separated by 0.026s by the time the session ended, set their fastest laps using the Supersoft tyre and were within six-tenths of...
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