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Vettel's One Stop Gamble Pays Off with Bahrain GP Victory

Sebastian Vettel just held off a charging Valtteri Bottas to score his second successive Formula 1 victory in a tense Bahrain Grand Prix.  From pole position, in his 200th start, Vettel pitted for the only time in the fifty-seven-lap race on Lap twenty for soft tyres, a lap after Valtteri Bottas had switched to the medium compound Pirelli tyres in an attempt to complete the race on one stop. With forty laps of the race completed at the Sakhir International Circuit, Ferrari abandoned its planned two-stop strategy for Vettel, instead keeping him out on worn rubber. However, in the closing stages, Vettel began to struggle on his tyres, allowing Bottas to close up to the Ferrari, and...
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