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Williams 'pleasantly surprised' by strong Friday practice pace

Williams were 'surprised' by their Friday practice pace after Valtteri Bottas and Felipe Massa finished 'best of the rest' behind Mercedes in third and fourth, albeit half a second adrift of Lewis Hamilton. The Grove outfit are locked in a close battle for fourth place in the championship standings are currently sit fifth, nine points behind Force India. Head of performance engineering Rob Smedley believes the hard work they've done behind the scenes paid off on Friday and reckons they're in 'good shape' this weekend. 'We are pleasantly surprised at how good our pace was today. We’ve done a lot of set-up and development work in the simulator, and then subsequently on...
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