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Hakkinen lauds Bottas' Melbourne achievements
Two-time World Champion Mika Hakkinen believes fellow Finn Valtteri Bottas gave himself a ‘psychological boost' in Australia. Bottas stormed his way to victory in the season-opener, taking the chequered flag 20 seconds ahead of team-mate Lewis Hamilton, and claiming the fastest lap to take a maximum 26 points from Melbourne. After enduring a winless 2018, serious questions were asked of Bottas’ future with the Silver Arrows, critics who he has for now silenced. In his post-race column for Unibet, former McLaren man Hakkinen wrote: 'Valtteri made it very clear on the team radio that he wanted that extra point and, although his new race engineer Riccardo Musconi told him to just...
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