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Bottas: ‘Just five laps too much' on mediums
Valtteri Bottas admitted that not coming in under the Safety Car may have been a mistake as he slipped from P1 to P4 during the British Grand Prix. The Finn stayed out and took the lead at Silverstone, but with older tyres, he was unable to hold on for the race win on Sunday afternoon. The Mercedes man may have been hindered slightly by the fact that he had not driven for any lengthy period of time on the medium tyres . 'I felt that there was definitely a possibility to go to the end,' Bottas said. 'Obviously, in practice I didn’t do any long runs with the mediums but from our calculations we should have been okay, but it wasn’t.' However, the calculations were not quite right,...
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