Mercedes driver Valtteri Bottas knows he needs to step up his game from last season if he is to have any chance of keeping his place with the World Champion team and has targeted a top-two finish at this weekend’s season-opening Australian Grand Prix. The 28-year-old won only three races last year despite getting a drive for the dominant Mercedes team alongside world champion Lewis Hamilton. With a host of other drivers coveting the Mercedes seat for next year when Bottas’s contract is up, the Finn knows this term he has to produce – starting at Albert Park on Sunday. “I do have big goals,” he told reporters at the track on Tuesday. “I need to try and step up my game and...
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