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Valtteri Bottas left gutted after debris ruins potential race win

Valtteri Bottas was left completed gutted after a piece of debris punctured his right rear tyre ruined a potential race win in the final laps of the Azerbaijan Grand Prix. Mercedes were trying an alternate strategy with the Finn in order to try and put Sebastian Vettel and Ferrari under pressure for the race win.  Once the Red Bull drivers collided and brought out the safety car, Bottas came into the pits for a set of Ultrasoft tyres and managed to maintain the race lead over the German. On the restart, Vettel tried to dive up the inside of Bottas and locked up, leaving the Finn to potentially score a fourth career win. It was not to be after he ran over a rather sizeable piece of...
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