– Valtteri Bottas emphasised that the layout of the Marina Bay Street Circuit has highlighted Mercedes' weaknesses, after the team emerged only third quickest during qualifying.Mercedes has typically struggled on low-speed, high-downforce tracks in 2017 and, allied to its historic difficulties at the event, was braced for a challenging weekend in Singapore.Its fears were duly realised in qualifying as Lewis Hamilton took only fifth, seven-tenths behind pole sitter Sebastian Vettel, with Bottas a further seven-tenths back in sixth place."Definitely, the gaps are too big for us," said Bottas."From two weeks ago at Monza it was pretty good for us, and now we're really...
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