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Wolff: After Bottas pole hard to give him team orders
The Mercedes F1 team will have to decide whether or not to employ team orders during the Russian Grand Prix after Valtteri Bottas turned the tables on championship leader and teammate Lewis Hamilton in qualifying for the race at Sochi Autodrom. Hamilton, who leads the championship standings by 40-points with six rounds remaining, will start from second, with title rival Sebastian Vettel lining up in the Ferrari third on the grid. Bottas has yet to win this season and will be starting from pole for only the second time this season Wolff acknowledged, to reporters after qualifying, that team orders in the race would be a tough ask of the Finn, “It is going to be difficult to tell him...
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