This weekend, Italy's legendary Imola circuit provides the next stage for seven-times Formula 1 world champion Lewis Hamilton and young pretender Max Verstappen where the pair will square off for round two of the battle the sport has been craving. The circuit – Autodromo Internazionale Enzo e Dino Ferrari – with the Santerno river lining a verdant backdrop of trees and parkland, is a marked contrast to Bahrain's stark desert track at Sakhir that hosted the opener won by Mercedes' Hamilton. The fast and flowing anti-clockwise layout is also narrower and bumpier than Bahrain, and with fewer opportunities to overtake which means track position and strategy will play a bigger part....
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