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Bottas happy to keep playing team role

Sep.15 Valtteri Bottas says he is happy to help Lewis Hamilton win the 2018 world championship. It has been a different story recently at Ferrari, where championship contender Sebastian Vettel's teammate Kimi Raikkonen is leaving and apparently reluctant to play a supportive role. But Finn Bottas, who is championship leader Hamilton's Mercedes teammate, said in Singapore: "I understand that Lewis is fighting for the title while my chances are very small. "So if I can help him do it, I will." Bottas' 'team supportive' driving at Monza enraged some of Ferrari's fans, with team boss Maurizio Arrivabene even describing him as a "butler" rather than a driver. The...
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