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Hamilton pleased with Mercedes performance on soft compound

After finishing fastest in both of Friday's Free Practice sessions at the Red Bull Ring, Lewis Hamilton says that he feels more comfortable on the soft tyres – the hardest compound that Pirelli had brought to the Austrian Grand Prix weekend. Hamilton led his Mercedes AMG Petronas Motorsport team-mate Valtteri Bottas in both sessions, as the reigning champions continued their blistering pace from Circuit Paul Ricard last week. The Brit clocked a day's best time of a 1 minute 04.579 seconds on the soft tyres, improving on his morning benchmark by three-tenths. The 33-year-old reflected on a 'pretty straightforward' day and, whilst he prefers the harder compound, admits that the...
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