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Valtteri Bottas: “We just didn’t have the pure pace today'

Valtteri Bottas felt that tenth place was the best he could achieve for Williams Martini Racing on Sunday, the Finnish driver produced a tactically aware drive to secure a valuable point in Japan. “As a team strategy-wise, we managed to do something different to our competitors so that was good. There definitely wasn’t any more we could have got out of today. In a nutshell, we need to make a quicker car and hope that the rest of the circuits in the calendar are better suited to us.” Bottas admits that the team lack overall pace especially with rivals Force India consistently scoring points. “We just didn’t have the pure pace today. From my side, being the lead car in the first...
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