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Bottas: Three-place grid drop for 'dangerous' pit lane mishap
Mercedes' Valtteri Bottas will have to overcome a three place grid drop for Sunday's Styrian Grand prix after being penalised by the FIA race stewards for dangerous driving Bottas had been summoned to the stewards' office after an incident that took place in Friday afternoon's practice session at the Red Bull Ring in Spielberg, Austria. After 40 minutes, Bottas had come into the pit lane to change his worn set of sort tyres for a new set of the hard compound. As is common in practice sessions, he lit up the tyres as he left his pit box in order to lay down some rubber. But in this case the Mercedes W12 lost grip at the back end and swapped ends, sliding sideways into the McLaren area just...
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