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The first 12 minutes after the track opens and no-one has yet completed a flying lap. Most have done their installations - Lewis Hamilton extrovertly sideways well before the first swimming pool apex - but are now waiting in the garages for the track to get hotter. Ideally they need someone out there rubbering it in too, though no-one wants to be the first, the sweeper, the fluffer. But it's calling out to one man and he can resist no longer. Jarno Trulli's affinity with the place is deep. Soon he's hustling the Toyota through the left-right of the swimming pool section, fast enough that the car's on its tippy-toes, alive, neurotic, ready to dart off, requiring his firm hand. When Ralf Schumacher comes through in the sister car a few laps later it looks inert by comparison, merely following its front wheels. © 2020 Autosport
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