Robert Doornbos indicated at Ziggo Sport, that Mercedes might try something new by anticipating the start of the race and that Valtteri Bottas therefore almost made a false start. The Finn reacted to the lights on his dashboard instead of the lights on the grid. Mercedes, however, indicated in a video on the Youtube channel of the team that it was an error by Bottas.  Andrew Shovelin, trackside engineer of Mercedes, explains the start of Bottas. "He practices his starts normally through the lights on his steering wheel during the weekend and to simulate the start with the lights, his lights also turn on on his steering wheel. So if the lights on his dashboard go out, he started...
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