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WATCH: Ride onboard for Valtteri Bottas's fastest lap of Friday practice in Sochi
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Valtteri Bottas smashed it out of the (Olympic) park on the Friday of the Russian Grand Prix weekend, going fastest in both sessions for Mercedes, finishing ahead of team mate Lewis Hamilton in Free Practice 1 and Free Practice 2.
That’s hardly surprising, with Bottas having a particular affinity for the Sochi Autodrom at which he won his first ever Grand Prix in 2017, gave up a win to Hamilton in 2018 and won at again last year.
READ MORE: ‘There’s more to come’ says Bottas after Friday practice clean sweep at Sochi
Check out the video up top to ride onboard with the Finn in his Mercedes W12 for his fastest lap of the day, his 1m 33.593s peach of an effort from FP2.
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