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Bottas makes solid debut as Maldonado spins off

Williams endured a difficult weekend, one of which they has expected much more after strong winter tests. Valtteri Bottas nonetheless had a good debut and gained two placed to finish 14th in today's Australian GP. Pastor Maldonado spun off in turn 1 to end his race early. Mike Coughlan, Technical Director: 'It was a difficult race for us. We opted to try two different strategies starting Valtteri on the supersoft option tyre and Pastor on the medium prime. In the end, I don’t think one strategy would have had a big difference in benefit over the other. It was good that Valtteri was able to bring the car home in his first race, but we have work we need to do now as a team to improve the...
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