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Bottas says 0.001s margin to Vettel "a real shame"

Mercedes driver Valtteri Bottas admits it was "a real shame" for him to lose a front row spot in the Chinese Grand Prix to Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel. While teammate Lewis Hamilton has taken pole for the first two races of the season, Mercedes newcomer Bottas is still chasing his first front row start with the team - as Vettel narrowly denied him on both occasions. The Finn was 0.025s off Vettel in Q3 in Australia, and was denied by a last-gasp effort by the Ferrari man in China as well, coming up 0.001s short. "Around one lap here, one-thousandth [of a second] is not so much," Bottas said. "It is a real shame he [Vettel] managed to between us. "So, yeah,...
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