Topping the timesheets with a healthy margin to their championship rivals, the march continued for Lewis Hamilton and Mercedes in Sochi on Friday So it was after Singapore, so it still is after Friday: the man to beat is Lewis Hamilton, and Ferrari's quest to catch him is already in danger of floundering. Two tenths ahead of Valtteri Bottas, five tenths ahead of Sebastian Vettel, Hamilton has already established an advantage at a track that, historically has not always been so kind to him. Indeed, Hamilton admitted afterwards this is his 'weakest circuit' – to have such an advantage already speaks as much to his and Mercedes' continued improvement as it does Ferrari's failure to lift...
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