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Bottas: Mercedes rear end 'needs to be calmed down a bit'
Valtteri Bottas set the pace on Saturday in Bahrain, but the Finn played down the performance and highlighted his struggles with the "snappy and unforgiving" rear end of Mercedes' new W12. Although he took to the track an hour into the afternoon session, Bottas enjoyed a clean run through the team's programs that contrasted with Mercedes' troubled Friday morning. Bottas accumulated 58 laps and set the fastest lap so far in pre-season testing. The Finn was relieved but underscored the set-up work that remains to be done to iron out a few major issues impact Mercedes' W12, and specifically its rear end. "I finally managed to get some laps and some clean runs to really learn...
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