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Bottas has fingers crossed on engine penalties

Valtteri Bottas, who has taken grid penalties at three of the last four races, is hoping that he's done with new engine components for the remainder of the season. At Monza, though he won Saturday's Sprint, the Finn started the Grand Prix from the back of the grid after taking on a new ICE (internal combustion engine), turbocharger, MGU-H and MGU-K. Two weeks later, the Finn took a 10-place drop - leaving him just ahead of Max Verstappen - after taking on a new ICE, turbocharger and MGU-H in what Mercedes described a 'strategic' move. Finally, last weekend at COTA, Bottas dropped five places after taking on another new ICE. At a time customer teams have also been taking on new components...
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