Newsflash! Mercedes was not the fastest car in a practice session for a grand prix this year! Of course, there is a caveat – the track at the 2020 Turkish Grand Prix was as slippery as a wet eel, so six-time defending champion Lewis Hamilton elected to mail it in for his first outing on the track while his Mercedes teammate, Valtteri Bottas went for a spin on the track.
That allowed Red Bull’s Max Verstappen to register a snail’s pace fastest time on hard tires and even get Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel into the top five…
