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Gearbox penalty for Bottas
Just a week after Lewis Hamilton's Austrian Grand Prix hopes were somewhat scuppered by a gearbox change, teammate Valtteri Bottas has suffered a similar fate. While the German team was giving little away it revealed, somewhat tantalisingly, that the Finn's gearbox was damaged 'in the same way' as Hamilton's which is thought to have incurred damage in Baku. 'We've started the weekend really well,' said Bottas who topped both of today's sessions. 'In the first session, the balance was not too far away, so a positive start. 'There is still work to do to get the car more driveable and to be able to trust it more in the high-speed corners,' he admitted. 'But overall I think it was a good start...
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