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Mercedes worryingly crush their rivals in Silverstone heat

Mercedes revelled in the hot conditions at Silverstone as Lewis Hamilton and team-mate Valtteri Bottas split the one-twos in practice ahead of the 70th Anniversary Grand Prix. The team's Achilles heel in recent years has been the heat, and when temperatures rise, so the performance of its car falls away, allowing Hamilton and Bottas to drop into the clutches of their rivals. Article continues under video Across both sessions on Formula 1's return to Silverstone, though, with temperatures hovering around 30 degrees centigrade, whilst on track it varied from 43 in FP1 down to 36 in FP2 when there was some cloud cover, Mercedes was never troubled. In the first session, Bottas finished...
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