Austrian Grand Prix – Lewis Hamilton and Valtteri Bottas remained the fastest runners at the Red Bull Ring, underlining the anticipated pace of the Mercedes team this weekend. Hamilton's pace-setting time of 1:04.579 was less than two tenths faster than his Mercedes team-mate, whilst Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel was the only other driver to set a time in the 1:04s. However, with Hamilton failing to improve on his qualifying simulation, his best lap time was set on the soft-compound tyre, the most durable of the this weekend's tyre selection. With only minor improvements for the front-runners in the qualifying simulations, the performance gap between the tyre compounds appears to be...
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