Though title protagonists Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen have their best times deleted, it is clear that overnight Red Bull has found the pace it was lacking on Friday.
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Best times from across all three practice sessions for the Aramco United States Grand Prix.
As Valtteri Bottas takes another grid penalty, Toto Wolff admits that fears over reliability have left Mercedes pondering the prospect of risking a similar move for Lewis Hamilton.
His best time deleted, despite how it might look, Lewis Hamilton claims that, particularly in FP2, Mercedes lost ground to Red Bull.
Much is being made of Max Verstappen calling Lewis Hamilton a "stupid idiot" during FP2, which is exactly how F1 bosses want it.
We looked okay relative to the midfield battle and tomorrow we'll hopefully continue to learn and progress
Track temperature was very high todsy and that obviously had an effect on the long runs, where degradation appeared quickly on the Softs. That could make things tricky come Sunday.
Despite the circuit having been resurfaced for around 40% of its total length, there's not a huge difference in terms of abrasion compared to our last visit in 2019, and it's also even more bumpy.
It was a solid day - nothing too unexpected from the two free practice sessions, it was all pretty standard.
Today's running has proved more difficult than we'd anticipated, and not what we've come to expect as a team on a Friday.