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Bottas defends not giving way to Hamilton in Spain
Valtteri Bottas was making no apologies for his decision not to leap out of the way of his Mercedes team mate Lewis Hamilton at a critical moment of Sunday's Spanish Grand Prix. Hamilton had dropped behing the Finn after making a second pit stop on lap 43 for a fresh set of mediums. He was 22 seconds behind race leader Max Verstappen and was up against it when it came to catching up again in the laps remaining. When Hamilton caught his team mate on lap 52, Bottas didn't exactly make it easy for him to get past despite knowing the high stakes involved, and that Hamilton was on an entirely different race strategy. "I definitely could have let him by earlier," a defiant Bottas told...
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