Make no mistake Valtteri Bottas is a very fast driver, there is no doubt about that. Anyone who can out-qualify Lewis Hamilton by a quarter of a second – as the Finn did in Russia two weeks ago – is special. And credit to the Mercedes driver for pushing Lewis to continue to dig even deeper, as he has done in the build-up to Sunday's Portuguese Grand Prix. Valtteri owned the free practice sessions, topping all of them and early in qualifying looked a fair bet for another pole. But a call to make only one run on his final fling in Q3 around the gorgeously challenging Portimao rollercoaster may have cost him his 15th top spot start in Formula 1. And of course, Lewis raising the...
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