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Bottas: Team orders not on the table

Valtteri Bottas insists Mercedes have not had the talk about team orders despite twice being told to move over for Lewis Hamilton in Bahrain. Although Bottas started the Bahrain Grand Prix from pole position, the Finn was quickly on the back foot as an issue with his tyre pressures at the start of the race cost him time. On a different strategy to Hamilton, Bottas twice found himself ahead of his team-mate on the track. And twice he was asked to move over for the Brit. Despite that Mercedes still lost the grand prix to Ferrari with Sebastian Vettel taking the chequered flag ahead of Hamilton and Bottas. This has raised the questions about whether team order will come into play more...
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