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Bottas: Mercedes never has had number one or two drivers
 Champions Mercedes have not spoken to Valtteri Bottas about introducing team orders at this weekend’s Russian Grand Prix despite telling him to move over for Lewis Hamilton in Bahrain. The Finnish driver, who joined the team this season as replacement for retired 2016 champion Nico Rosberg, has been widely tipped as likely to be demoted to 'number two' driver in a bid to boost Hamilton’s title challenge. But under scrutiny from reporters during Thursday’s pre-race news conference at the Sochi Autodrom, Bottas said: 'Nobody has spoken to me about this and there are a lot of ‘ifs’ in your question anyway.' 'We have not had the conversation because I do not think there is any need...           
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