Hamilton followed his 100th career pole on Saturday by taking his 98th career win. He also tied Michael Schumacher's mark of six victories at the Spanish Grand Prix.
Hamilton pushed his Mercedes to a flying lap of 1 minute, 16.74 seconds. Verstappen in his Red Bull was only 0.03 seconds behind.
Verstappen pushed his Red Bull to a session-best lap of 1 minute, 17.83 seconds.
At a track all teams know well, Mercedes and Red Bull are expected to continue to dominate with Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen separated by eight points after three races.
The talk before the race was whether Mercedes' tires would be vulnerable in the searing summer heat of Spain, after experiencing problems in the last two races at Silverstone.
Bottas was ahead of championship leader Hamilton on the first two splits but lost a fraction of time when he came out too wide from a turn at the end of his lap
Hamilton was 0.151 seconds clear of Mercedes teammate Valtteri Bottas and 0.515 in front of Red Bull's Max Verstappen. McLaren's Carlos Sainz Jr. showed impressive pace and ended fourth.
The championship leader finished .287 ahead of Bottas, who had been quicker than Hamilton earlier in first practice.
The Finnish driver was .039 quicker than championship leader Hamilton and about 1 second ahead of Max Verstappen
Racing Point's Sergio Perez has tested negative for coronavirus and will return to F1 with this week's Spanish Grand Prix.
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