Bottas immediately puts Mercedes #1 in Barcelona
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Driving the superior Mercedes and not trying hard at all, Valtteri Bottas topped the first morning of 2020 Formula 1 pre-season testing at Barcelona, on a sunny day at Barcelona
Bottas will hand over the W11 to Lewis Hamilton for the afternoon session
Bottas set a best time of 1m17.313s on the C3 Pirelli tire.
Wednesday AM Times
| POS | DRIVER | CAR | TIME | GAP | LAPS |
| 1 | Valtteri Bottas | Mercedes | 1m17.313s | 0.000s | 78 |
| 2 | Sergio Perez | Racing Point/Mercedes | 1m17.375s | 0.062s | 58 |
| 3 | Max Verstappen | Red Bull/Honda | 1m17.787s | 0.474s | 91 |
| 4 | Carlos Sainz Jr. | McLaren/Renault | 1m18.001s | 0.688s | 64 |
| 5 | Esteban Ocon | Renault | 1m18.004s | 0.691s | 59 |
| 6 | George Russell | Williams/Mercedes | 1m18.168s | 0.855s | 73 |
| 7 | Charles Leclerc | Ferrari | 1m18.289s | 0.976s | 64 |
| 8 | Robert Kubica | Alfa Romeo/Ferrari | 1m18.386s | 1.073s | 57 |
| 9 | Kevin Magnussen | Haas/Ferrari | 1m18.466s | 1.153s | 52 |
| 10 | Daniil Kvyat | AlphaTauri/Honda | 1m18.484s | 1.171s | 53 |