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Mercedes: Bottas needs to "analyse and forget" China mistake
Mercedes F1 boss Toto Wolff has backed the team's new driver Valtteri Bottas to recover from an underwhelming performance in China, saying the Finn needs to "analyse it and forget it". The Finn had taken an encouraging third on his Mercedes race debut in Australia, finishing close behind teammate Lewis Hamilton, but he endured a much tougher time in China. While Hamilton controlled the wet-dry Shanghai race, Bottas spun under safety car conditions early on while trying to warm up his tyres and could only recover to a sixth-place finish in the end. "He threw it away behind the safety car," Wolff told Sky Sports. "It happens to the best, it was very slippery out there...
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