Bottas outpaces Hamilton as Mercedes set pace in Silverstone heat | Malay Mail

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SILVERSTONE, Aug 7 — Valtteri Bottas outpaced world championship-leading Mercedes teammate Lewis Hamilton as the two ‘black arrows’ topped the times in Friday’s opening free practice for the 70th Anniversary Grand Prix. The Finn, who won the season-opening race in Austria, clocked a best...

Mercedes' Valtteri Bottas during practice at the Silverstone Circuit, Silverstone August 7, 2020. — Reuters pic

The Finn, who won the season-opening race in Austria, clocked a best lap in 1min 26.166sec to beat the six-time world champion by one-tenth on a hot day with rising temperatures in central England.Five days after his dramatic British Grand Prix win on three good wheels and one that was punctured on this circuit, Hamilton and his team closely monitored blistering on the softer compound rubber introduced this weekend.

Racing Point went into the session after learning that Renault had won a protest against their cars’ legality and originality. They were docked 15 points and fined €400,000 following a lengthy stewards’ inquiry into a specific complaint against their brake ducts.

 

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