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Morning After: Bottas' Time to Rise and Shine?

Yet to record a win in 2018, Valtteri Bottas got his weekend off to a promising start by topping the Friday FP2 timesheets in Abu Dhabi. Looking to avoid the ignominy of being the first Mercedes driver to winless in a season since Michael Schumacher in 2012, Valtteri Bottas made sure to put his best foot forward on Friday. And sure, maybe that factoid is a little disingenuous given his lost win in Sochi, but you can bet the Finn is extra motivated all the same, and unlike in Russia, he can expect to have his team's full support behind him. That said, it's certainly no given that his 0.044s advantage continues to hold up. Red Bull have been surprisingly strong here (especially given their...
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