Ahead of today's second free practice session the air temperature is 17 degrees C, while the track temperature is 26 degrees. Despite the threats of rain in FP1, and even a few sports of it, there was nothing of consequence and all running was done on slicks. In a rare moved, Sebastian Vettel topped the FP1 timesheets, the German out-pacing Max Verstappen by 0.151s and Lewis Hamilton by 0.318s. As expected, Mercedes and Ferrari have brought another upgrade - what with Spa, and Monza that follows, being tow of the most power-hungry tracks on the calendar. On the downside, Valtteri Bottas is demoted to the back of the grid on Sunday as this is his fourth unit of the year. Similarly Nico...
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