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Raikkonen continues to set Bahrain pace as Hamilton and Vettel falter

Ahead of today's sole practice session the air temperature is 29 degrees C, while the track temperature is 43 degrees. The big news overnight is that following a particularly scrappy day on Friday, things got a little worse for Lewis Hamilton when Mercedes had to change his gearbox, having revealed that it almost gave up the ghost in Melbourne. As a result the world champion has a 5-place grid penalty. Daniel Ricciardo was quickest in FP1 but Kimi Raikkonen lead a Ferrari 1-2 when it really mattered in FP2. Though Toto Wolff insists that the Ferraris were using a high engine mode which flattered their performance, the red cars look better suited here than their silver rivals. Talking of...
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