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Bottas has 'fun Friday' setting fastest time of the week

Valtteri Bottas came away from the first three days of2020 pre-season testing at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya with the fastest lap time of anyone, after having 'fun' on Friday stretching the legs of the W11. While much of the spotlight on Mercedes this week has been on its controversial new Dual Axis Steering system, it was a nice change for Bottas and his team mate Lewis Hamilton to be able to get back to work setting top times. Bottas finished the first week of testing by setting a new milestone of 1:15.732s after completing 65 laps in the morning. Hamilton was second fastest for the day after lunch, although he didn't beat his own previous best set on Wednesday. Bottas and...
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