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Bottas and Hamilton dominate final day of week 1
Mercedes drivers Valtteri Bottas and Lewis Hamilton were in imperious form on Friday, on the last day of the first 2020 pre-season test at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya. Bottas had set the best time of the morning session, with a lap of 1:15.732s on the C5 soft Pirelli tyre, just three tenths off his pole time in last year's Spanish Grand Prix qualifying. It put him over a second clear of the rest of the field, before handing over the W11 to Hamilton at lunch. Although mainly focussed on longer runs, Hamilton did also undertake a number of speed trials using the controversial DAS innovation and the softest compound. However he ultimately finished almost eight tenths off of his team...
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