Lewis Hamilton and Valtteri Bottas secured a very comfortable Mercedes 1-2 in the second practice session ahead of the Australian Grand Prix. Hamilton, quickest in the FP1 session, improved on his best time by a second in the afternoon with a 1:22.600 set on the quickest soft compounds. That was a mere 0.048 seconds quicker than team-mate Valtteri Bottas, whilst Max Verstappen, Pierre Gasly and Sebastian Vettel, in P3, P4 and P5 respectively, found themselves eight tenths down on the Silver Arrows duo. Kimi Raikkonen followed next in P6 with another impressive display in the Alfa Romeo; the two Renaults, Charles Leclerc (who spun out suddenly in the last couple of minutes) and Haas' Romain...
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