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Bottas: Tyres won't dominate F1 title battle for long

Valtteri Bottas predicts that the Formula 1 title battle between Mercedes and Ferrari will transform from one about tyre management into one about ultimate car performance. The foundations of Sebastian Vettel's two victories so far this season have been laid on his SF70H car not suffering as much tyre degradation as the Mercedes W08. It has allowed his Maranello team to adopt more aggressive tyre strategies and, in both Australia and China, he was able to leapfrog Lewis Hamilton in the pits rather than overtaking him on track. But for Bottas, whose own hopes of victory in Bahrain were wrecked by tyre problems, the situation at the front is expected to change once all teams get on top of...
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