Lewis Hamilton has no plans to gift any wins to Mercedes team-mate Valtteri Bottas despite having a fifth Formula 1 world championship sewn up. The Briton has won nine of the 19 grand prix races so far this season while Bottas, who has dutifully obeyed team orders to help Hamilton and endured agonising bad luck while leading, has yet to triumph. Asked at the Brazilian Grand Prix whether he would let the Finn win were he in a position to do so, Hamilton told reporters that would be a decision for Mercedes to make. “I don’t think he is going to want that, he is going to win one on his own, in his own way,” added the 33-year-old, who clinched the drivers’ title with two races to spare...
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