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Hamilton: Car ‘felt pretty terrible' in Portugal FP2

World Champion Lewis Hamilton says his Mercedes W11 “felt pretty terrible” during second practice for Formula 1’s Portuguese Grand Prix. Hamilton finished second-quickest to Mercedes team-mate Valtteri Bottas in Friday’s opening session upon Formula 1’s first visit to the Algarve Circuit. But Hamilton aborted a Soft tyre run in FP2 and then mustered only eighth later in the session, which was twice red-flagged due to incidents. “FP1 was probably the better session for me even though the car didn’t feel that great,” he said. “Then we made some changes into this one and it felt pretty terrible in FP2. “We need to take a few steps back to figure out where we went wrong...
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