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Mercedes explain Bottas' lack of pace at Imola

Mercedes have confirmed Valtteri Bottas’ poor performance at Imola was not caused by a car issue, just a lack of grip. Bottas’ second race of the season will be best remembered for his big crash with George Russell and their row over who was to blame. But even before that, the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix had been going badly for the Finn. The fact Bottas was being passed by a Williams for position spoke volumes in itself and he had just been lapped by his second-placed team-mate, Sir Lewis Hamilton. Having finished a distant third in the season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix, the pressure is building on the 31-year-old – and Mercedes’ trackside engineering director Andrew Shovlin cited...
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