Lewis Hamilton beat Mercedes teammate Valtteri Bottas to the fastest time in FP3 as Mercedes were again the team to beat ahead of qualifying for the Spanish Grand Prix. Hamilton, targeting consecutive victories in Barcelona, set a best lap time of 1:17.281 on the Pirelli supersoft tyres, fractionally faster than Bottas. The 60-minutes session was marred when Brendon Hartley crashed his Toro Rosso heavily. The accident, right at the end of the session and after Hartley had gone wide onto the grass run-off and lost control at the right-handed turn nine, brought out red flags to halt the action. Hamilton topped the timesheets with a best lap of one minute 17.281 seconds, a mere 0.013...
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