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Bottas baffled by Russian GP qualifying struggles
Valtteri Bottas says he does not understand why he struggled with balance issues on his Mercedes Formula 1 car throughout Russian Grand Prix qualifying. While Mercedes teammate Lewis Hamilton was able to earn a front-row starting berth by splitting the Ferrari duo, Bottas, who usually excels at Sochi, could only set the fifth-fastest time and was slower than Red Bull’s Max Verstappen. Bottas aborted his final Q3 run after suffering a snap under braking at Turn 14, and the Finn explained how the issue proved a persistent problem throughout the session. “It was tricky today,” he said. “In the last sector, in Turn 13, pretty much in every lap, sometimes a bigger one, sometimes a...
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