< ► > It might not have been the Formula 1 Word Championship finale to 2017 anyone wanted, but at the end of a dull night Valtteri Bottas probably didn’t mind. In a way it was only fitting that Abu Dhabi, a city which tries to be the ‘Monaco’ of the Middle East gave us a procession on-par with anything we’ve seen in the principality, yet for the soft-spoken Finn the significance of such a routine victory can’t be discounted. Backing up his stellar pole with an equally impressive race, Sunday was the Bottas we’d be waiting for over the past four months. Even if his lead was helped by the passing-unfriendly confines of the Yas Marina circuit, this was Bottas at his...
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