Valtteri Bottas ended the opening morning of the final in-season test of the 2019 Formula 1 season quickest for Mercedes as the team picked up where it left off in Barcelona. Taking the reins of the Mercedes W10 car for the first day of running at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, Bottas managed to set a fastest lap time of 1m16.525s through the four-hour morning session, giving him top spot by seven-tenths of a second. The only uneasy moment of Bottas' morning came when Mercedes misjudged where it had placed a number of cones at its garage, causing the Finn to get one stuck to a sensor grill that was placed on the car. It was quickly removed once he had returned to the pits. Bottas will...
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