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Bottas: 'We had a good strategy but I'm gutted'

Valtteri Bottas tried everything to ruin Charles Leclerc's race win in front of Ferrari's home crowd but he couldn't get close enough to pass the young 21-year-old. With three laps to go, Bottas managed to close the gap to less than half-a-second but a mistake at the first chicane left him too far behind.  Bottas had a younger set of tyres and had the mediums compared to Leclerc's hards. Bottas admitted he was "gutted" after his Mercedes team tried everything to get past his rival.  "We had a good strategy today with the long first stint. Because of this, we had chances at the end, but it is frustrating that I just didn't get to it. I just couldn't get...
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