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Bottas ahead of record-chasing Hamilton

Valtteri Bottas out-paced Lewis Hamilton in second practice for the Russian GP as Mercedes stormed clear, with the Finn enjoying the perfect start to a weekend on which his team-mate his chasing records. Bottas, who has been dominant on Fridays in recent weeks but is without an F1 2020 victory since the first race of the season, topped both P1 and P2 at Sochi - and was impressively more than two-tenths faster than Hamilton in an afternoon session where both drivers posted representative times. That means Hamilton, who can equal Michael Schumacher's famed record of 91 victories this weekend, is on the back foot heading into Saturday's qualifying day. Although Mercedes most definitely are...
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