Valtteri Bottas says his 2019 Monaco Grand Prix was 'decided in the pits' following a clash with Max Verstappen that cost him a potential shot at victory. Bottas had been beaten to pole-position by his team-mate Lewis Hamilton and trailed the championship leader during an early-race safety car period. The busy pit-lane saw Verstappen launch into the side of Bottas as the pair raced from their pit-boxes, closely followed by Sebastian Vettel. The contact left Bottas with a puncture and the Finn was forced to stop again the following lap, dropping him to fourth behind Vettel. 'My race was decided in the pits,' says Bottas. 'We did a double-stacked pit stop under the Safety Car, Lewis first,...
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