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Valtteri Bottas continues Mercedes dominance in FP2

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SILVERSTONE -- Valtteri Bottas continued his and Mercedes' strong start to the British Grand Prix by edging teammate Lewis Hamilton to the quickest time of Friday's second practice session.

Having topped the morning session, Bottas set a 1:28.496 during the qualifying simulations on Pirelli's softest tyre to once again lower the lap record. That time put him 0.047s up on Hamilton's soft tyre benchmark, which remained his quickest after a mistake on his super-soft lap. Having gone purple and then green through the first two sectors, Hamilton had a twitch at Chapel before going wide at the corner, compromising his lap.