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Bottas: Pole in reach for Mercedes at ‘most challenging’ qualifying

Valtteri Bottas feels Mercedes can still fight for pole position in Monaco despite bracing for “the most challenging qualifying we’ll face so far this year”. The Finnish driver, who is running a Mika Hakkinen tribute helmet design this weekend, ended the second free practice session down in sixth place over eight-tenths of a second off of pace-setter Red Bull’s Daniel Ricciardo but isn’t expecting the gap to last come qualifying. Bottas says Mercedes made vital set-up tweaks between the two practice sessions on Thursday in Monaco in qualifying runs and is confident he can still fight for pole position. “We knew that Red Bull and Ferrari were going to be quick here and so they...
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