Valtteri Bottas believes that the way the current Williams car handled its tyres may have been the deciding factor between a podium finish and mere points in the Russian Grand Prix. The Finn was promoted to a front row start after Sebastian Vettel's gearbox penalty took effect in qualifying, but was unable either to offer a challenge to polesitter Nico Rosberg or fend off the charging Lewis Hamilton, who benefited from a first lap melee to vault his way from tenth to an eventual second. The final step of the podium may still have been possible for the Finn, however, but he lost out in a battle with Kimi Raikkonen's Ferrari, eventually coming home 18secs adrift of his countryman. Although...
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