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Flying Vettel puts pressure on Hamilton

Sebastian Vettel smashed the all-time Sepang lap record Friday as Ferrari put the pressure on Lewis Hamilton before a track fault brought an early halt to Malaysian Grand Prix practice on Friday. Vettel clocked 1min 31.261sec around the 5.543-kilometre circuit on his qualifying simulation run in the second session to smash the old record of 1:32.50 set by Fernando Alonso in 2005. Vettel's Ferrari teammate Kimi Raikkonen was second, six-tenths of a second adrift. The Red Bulls of Daniel Ricciardo and Max Verstappen were third and fourth on a frustrating day for Mercedes' championship leader, Hamilton who was only sixth fastest with Valtteri Bottas seventh. Hamilton had been on just his...
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