Ahead of today's second practice session, the air temperature is 21.2 degrees C, while the track temperature is 36.1 degrees. At the top of the timesheets in FP1 it was pretty much business as usual, with Valtteri Bottas heading Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen. However, session was notable for the sheer number of times drivers had their times deleted for exceeding the track limits, particularly in Turns 1 and 4. Courtesy of a new track surface, unfamiliarity with the track and the tyres choice - the hardest in the range - drivers struggled to stay on the black stuff, and though there were a few spins nobody ended up in the gravel. On the subject of tyres, for the first thirty minutes of...
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