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Hamilton: Vettel nearly put me in the wall

Almost lost in the debate regarding Mercedes' blatant use of team orders during the Russian Grand Prix, is the fact that title contenders Sebastian Vettel and Lewis Hamilton nearly pranged as they battled for track position at Sochi Autodrome on Sunday. Just before the first round of pitstops, Mercedes were one-two with Vettel keeping them in his sights in third. Bottas was first in for fresh rubber, followed Vettel a lap later, his crew did a good job to get him out in 2.6 seconds. When the Ferrari emerged on track it was in a silver sandwich – Bottas ahead and Hamilton behind – the undercut had worked for the Reds. But the Mercedes was visibly the better car (as it had been...
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