Lewis Hamilton and his Mercedes team may have been suckered into revealing their hand ahead of qualifying day when they dominated the top of the timesheets at the end of the first day of free practice for the Australian Grand Prix, Round 1 of the 2019 Formula 1 World Championship, at Albert Park. Hamilton topped the timing screens at the end of FP2, with teammate Valtteri Bottas half a tenth adrift with the next best Max Verstappen third in the Red Bull albeit whopping eighth tenths shy of the top time. Based on Barcelona testing pace Ferrari were expected to be the favourites, but Sebastian Vettel was 0.873 of a second off the benchmark time set by Hamilton. Several F1 pundits and former...
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