Max Verstappen topped the times ahead of Lewis Hamilton in Saturday morning’s third and final practice at the Bahrain Grand Prix.
The Red Bull driver clocked a best lap of one minute and 28.355 seconds in the closing minutes to outpace Mercedes’ newly-crowned seven-time champion by 0.263 seconds.
Valtteri Bottas, in the second ‘black arrow’, was third behind his team-mate.
Hamilton attempted to respond in the final seconds of the session, but pulled up at the end of the pit lane before joining the fray as a red light signaled it was over.
It was unclear if Hamilton had a car problem — likely to be an electronic sensor issue — or had missed his chance before the light ca…
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