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Hamilton hopes Bottas gesture won't cost him title

Lewis Hamilton hopes his gesture to move aside for Formula 1 teammate Valtteri Bottas in the Hungarian Grand Prix doesn't end up costing him the 2017 world championship. Bottas let Hamilton through on lap 43 as they closed on the Ferraris, which were slow due to Sebastian Vettel battling a steering problem. When asking to be let through to attack Kimi Raikkonen, Hamilton offered to let Bottas back ahead if he couldn't make a pass stick, and he stuck to that promise on the final lap despite Bottas falling back and being caught by Max Verstappen. "Hopefully the way I drove today, and how I behaved at the end, shows that I am a team player and a man of my word," Hamilton told TV...
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