Bottas fastest as midfield battle heats up in Abu Dhabi – Speedcafe

Valtteri Bottas pic: Mercedes F1 Twitter
Valtteri Bottas has ended Fridays running at the Formula 1 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix fastest ahead of Mercedes team-mate Lewis Hamilton while the midfield proved incredibly close.
Bottas was 0.2s quicker than the returning Hamilton at the end of Practice 2, having trailed Max Verstappen by 0.03s in the earlier session.
Times fell more than a second in the evening session, Bottas best coming on the medium compound tyres.
The top three all used the yellow walled…

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