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Race: Bottas back with a vengeance in Melbourne
After a win-less 2018 campaign, Valtteri Bottas came out fighting in Melbourne on Sunday, taking an easy victory ahead of Lewis Hamilton in Mercedes' first 1-2 of the season. Bottas made a lightning start and got the jump on Hamilton to lead the Australian Grand Prix. The Finn, who insisted throughout the pre-season that he can win this year's championship, showed fighting spirit after losing out on pole 24 hours earlier. He built up a lead of more than four seconds over Hamilton when the Brit came into the pits for his stop on lap 16. Mercedes reacted to Ferrari stopping Sebastian Vettel a lap earlier, lessening the impact of the Scuderia's attempts at an undercut. Vettel was just two...
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