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Bottas understands 'tough' team orders
– Mercedes driver Valtteri Bottas has labelled team orders as "tough" but says he understands why they were applied during the Bahrain Grand Prix.Bottas started from pole position but a generator failure on the grid meant he was running with too high tyre pressures, and he was unable to stretch out an advantage.Bottas slipped behind Sebastian Vettel at the first round of stops and fell into the clutches of Lewis Hamilton, who was running on the Softs, as opposed to the Super Softs.Hamilton breezed past, but when he made his second stop, later than his rivals, he emerged behind Bottas once more, having served a five-second time penalty.On fresher Soft tyres, Hamilton rapidly...
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