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Valtteri Bottas encouraged by late-season one-lap performance

Valtteri Bottas expressed encouragement at his late-season one-lap pace as he capped the 2017 campaign with back-to-back pole positions. Bottas duelled with Mercedes team-mate Lewis Hamilton for top spot at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, with the pair trading quick times through Q1 and Q2. Bottas pulled ahead during the early stages of Q3 with the quickest ever lap of the Yas Marina Circuit, almost two-tenths clear of Hamilton. Neither driver improved on their second efforts, ensuring Bottas sealed pole position for the fourth time this season, and for the second successive race, having also headed qualifying in Brazil. “It's only the fourth pole of my whole career and I had to beat...
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