It was a tough year for Valtteri Bottas after the Finn failed to win a race and was so cruelly denied in Baku. Bottas was leading with three laps remaining of the Azerbaijan Grand Prix only to pick up a right rear puncture that put him out of the race after driving over some metal, left from a collision between Kevin Magnussen and Pierre Gasly. Bottas would have gone top of the world championship standings. Mercedes Boss Toto Wolff was highly critical of the incident and was sympathetic to Bottas. “Baku for me was a shock,” Wolff revealed to Autosport. “Magnussen vs Gasly was crazy, and should have been severely penalised. “Then the debris being on the track from...
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