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Austrian GP: Bottas beats Vettel amid jump start controversy

Valtteri Bottas survived a jump-start investigation to score his second Formula 1 victory in the Austrian Grand Prix, holding off a stiff assault by points leader Sebastian Vettel in the final laps. From pole position, Bottas made the perfect getaway to lead – so much so that both Vettel and Daniel Ricciardo questioned over team radio whether the Mercedes driver had in fact jumped the start.  Bottas was placed under investigation, but was deemed to have taken 0.201 seconds to react to the lights, and was subsequently cleared of any wrongdoing by stewards. Ricciardo settled into third after pushing Kimi Raikkonen out wide at Turn 3, which dropped the Finn back to fifth place behind the...
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