Beyond the circumstances that led to his crash at Imola with George Russell, Valtteri Bottas should ask himself why he was battling with a Williams in the first place says former F1 driver Ralf Schumacher. Bottas was nowhere in the hunt last weekend in Italy, where the Mercedes driver qualified a lowly P8 and then struggled to remain among the top-ten in the tricky conditions on race day. Racing at the bottom of the first half of the field was an unfamiliar sight for Bottas and his team, so much so that even Toto Wolff felt the need to encourage the Finn over the radio. To no avail unfortunately, and it all ended on lap 30 with Russell's ill-fated maneuver that took out the Finn and...
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