Mercedes are counting on cooler conditions enabling them to wrest back the advantage when it matters at the British Grand Prix. On the UK’s third hottest day on record, with temperatures up to 35 degrees centigrade and Silverstone fanned by a warm wind, Mercedes’ Achilles heel was evident again as they were outpaced in FP2 by Lance Stroll’s Racing Point and Alex Albon’s Red Bull before the latter crashed out of the session. Valtteri Bottas was third fastest, 0.157sec off Stroll’s best time, while Charles Leclerc put his Ferrari in between the Mercedes duo as Lewis Hamilton ended up only P5 on the timesheets. Hamilton admitted it was not the session he had hoped for, but with the...
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