Article To news overview © Mercedes Mercedes' Andrew Shovlin believes that Lewis Hamilton and Valtteri Bottas struggled to unlock pace from the W12 as the practice sessions wore on on Friday at the Circuit of the Americas. While Mercedes were the class of the field in first practice on Friday morning, with Bottas and Hamilton almost a full second clear of everyone else on the Soft tyre compound, it was Red Bull's Sergio Perez who went fastest in the afternoon. While Hamilton did set a time a tenth faster than Perez during FP2, the time was deleted for exceeding track limits at Turn 19. Even had that time stood, the huge time advantage that Mercedes had in the morning did appear to have...
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