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Bottas feels ‘excitement' from hunting Red Bull

Valtteri Bottas has said the perception that Mercedes are chasing Red Bull does not bring pressure, instead it excites him. Mercedes came into the 2021 campaign riding the momentum of seven Drivers' and Constructors' Championships in a row, and were clear favourites to make it eight. But the German outfit struggled in pre-season testing with stability appearing to be a main issue of the W12 and at round one in Bahrain, Bottas said the rear of his challenger remained tricky to live with. 'To be honest, in Bahrain it was a bit tricky for us in terms of how the car actually felt,' he told reporters in his press conference on the eve of the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix weekend at Imola. 'It still...
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