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Almost certain Mercedes head into 2017 with Bottas as Hamilton’s team-mate
Mercedes, Hamilton baulked at Wehrlein solution It is now almost certain that Mercedes will head into 2017 with Valtteri Bottas as Lewis Hamilton's new teammate. Authoritative reports say Felipe Massa has agreed to scrap his retirement plans in order to replace the departing Finn Bottas at Williams. It is a blow to Pascal Wehrlein, the junior Mercedes driver who had earlier looked the favourite. 'They (Mercedes) were in a very difficult situation,' Toro Rosso team boss Franz Tost told the Tiroler Tageszeitung newspaper. 'They have dominated but suddenly lost the world champion, and it happened too late for them to replace him with a top driver because of all the contracts.' So when asked...
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