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Bottas: Pole possible without British GP qualifying error 

Valtteri Bottas is convinced he could have challenged Lewis Hamilton and Sebastian Vettel for pole position had he not made a costly error during British Grand Prix qualifying.  The Mercedes driver was unable to match Hamilton’s pole lap as he finished 0.325s adrift of his teammate and behind both Ferraris at Silverstone.  Bottas was left to rue a mistake on his final Q3 lap, running wide at both Vale and Club. Mercedes boss Toto Wolff reckons the error equated to around 0.350s in lap time loss - which would have been enough to see the Finn secure back-to-back poles.  5774263478001 CrashTV:  “I'm disappointed - our pace was good today and it was all going well for me, but I...
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