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Bottas 'really poor at wheel-to-wheel' racing - Palmer
Ex-F1 driver and BBC pundit Jolyon Palmer has offered a scathing indictment of Valtteri Bottas' performance in Baku, highlighting in particular the Finn's "really poor" skills when racing wheel-to-wheel. Bottas finished the Azerbaijan Grand Prix outside the points in 12th position and never looked like a serious contender for a top-ten finish. The Finn, who qualified P10, was baffled by his car's mediocre pace all weekend in Baku and could not offer a rational explanation for the shortfall which oddly spared Mercedes teammate Lewis Hamilton. But Palmer also pointed to Bottas' "poor" wheel-to-wheel racing skills that just don't allow him to move forward whenever he's...
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