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Barcelona F1 test: Bottas breaks 1m20s barrier on ultrasofts

Valtteri Bottas set the pace on the morning of the third day of 2017 Formula 1 testing, as Mercedes made use of the ultra-soft tyre. With retired world champion Nico Rosberg watching from the Mercedes garage, his replacement headed the pack, initially on the soft tyre before moving to the super-soft and the ultra-soft. Bottas’s improvements were minimal on each compound, with his gain from soft to super-soft just 0.3s, and the ultra-softs only giving him another 0.1s to produce a 1m19.705s. Initially that left him well clear of the medium-shod Ferrari of Sebastian Vettel in second, but that became fourth as Daniel Ricciardo and Jolyon Palmer improved later on with runs on softs. Palmer...
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