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Bottas ‘confused' by his vanishing practice pace

Valtteri Bottas was left “confused” about why his strong Friday practice pace had disappeared overnight at the Qatar Grand Prix. The Finn had three tenths and four tenths of a second respectively in hand of his Mercedes team-mate Lewis Hamilton in FP1 and FP2, but the pendulum swung back towards the seven-time World Champion on Saturday. Admitting he had to “push a lot” to just edge out Hamilton for top spot in FP3, Bottas then fell away in qualifying as he finished 0.651sec adrift. Initially, that had appeared to ensure he will line up third at the Losail International Circuit behind his colleague and the other title contender, Max Verstappen. But later came news that Bottas,...
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