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Bottas fastest in Baku, Verstappen crashes

Valtteri Bottas was fastest for Mercedes in first free practice for the Azerbaijan Formula One Grand Prix on Friday, while Max Verstappen crashed his Red Bull a day after promising to exercise more control. Bottas's four times world champion team mate Lewis Hamilton was fourth quickest around the Caspian shore street circuit, also on the ultrasoft tyre. Red Bull's Daniel Ricciardo, winner of a chaotic race in Baku last year, was a mere 0.035 of a second off the Finn's best lap of one minute 44.242 seconds on the slower supersoft Pirelli tyres. Verstappen, the Australian's 20-year-old team mate, continued an unfortunate sequence of events by skidding sideways into the tyre wall with 55...
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