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AMD occurs in two forms: dry and wet.

This race had never been wet before, and the combination of water and the already slippery track meant that the extreme tyres were used in both the first two sessions.

Hamilton lacked pace throughout in the wet, conditions in which he has scored some of his greatest victories, and ended up 2.301 seconds slower than team-mate Charles Leclerc in the first session.

The conditions were treacherous, the session starting after heavy rain on a track wet enough for the extreme wet tyres, which nearly all drivers used throughout the first two sessions.

"It is going to get very wet and it is going to get very windy," Bureau of Meteorology forecaster Angus Hines said Saturday.