Mercedes’ Valtteri Bottas admits he’s at a loss to explain why he didn’t have more pace in his fight against team-mate Lewis Hamilton at the Portuguese Grand Prix. After dropping to second place behind McLaren’s Carlos Sainz on lap two, Bottas regained the lead a handful of laps later, and held a consistent gap to Hamilton for some time. However, Hamilton managed to reel his Finnish team-mate in and overtake him for the lead on lap 20, stretching out a 25-second lead by the end of the race, leaving Bottas to take the chequered flag in second place. “The start was nice, I think maybe it looked quite odd but there was actually a lot of rain so it was slippery, especially with the...
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