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Bottas: Hopefully we can make the Hypers work
Mercedes have never liked the Pirelli Ultrasoft tyres, during preseason testing in Barcelona they never used the pink banded tyres and at the time when selecting quotas, for the Canadian Grand Prix, they opted for only five sets of the fastest rubber for their drivers while rivals have the luxury of eight sets. Valtteri Bottas finished FP2 with the sixth best lap time using the Hypersofts, which was eight tenths slower than Max Verstappen's benchmark time of 1:12.328 in the Hypersoft shod Red Bull. Like his teammate Lewis Hamilton, Bottas will only bolt on the fastest rubber in FP3 for the first time this weekend to evaluate exactly where they are with the tyre. Bottas summed up his...
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