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Bottas defends strategy as steering issue adds to tyre woes
Valtteri Bottas maintains that trying to make his third set of tyres last all the way to the chequered flag was the right strategy for Williams to follow in the Singapore Grand Prix, but his cause wasn't helped by a steering issue that manifested itself after what became his final stop. The Finn appeared on course for a top six finish but was having to make his tyres - a set of new soft compound Pirellis – last almost 40 laps after the intervention of the safety car turned strategies on their head. Williams had planned to pit both Bottas and team-mate Felipe Massa for a third time before the end of the race but, with rival teams planning to stretch their stints to the chequered flag,...
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