Russian Grand Prix – Valtteri Bottas is feeling confident with his P3 despite feeling the gap to pole shouldn’t have been so large. Bottas had comfortably topped the time in both practice sessions on Friday and although Lewis Hamilton had denied him a clean sweep of sessions after the Brit went fastest in FP3. Bottas was looking to be the more comfortable of the Mercedes drivers in the early stages of qualifying after the Q2 red flag nearly put his teammate out of contention. “It’s been looking pretty good all weekend,” said Bottas. “I felt the pace being really good also Q1, Q2 was all nice and smooth.” The top ten shootout though didn’t go the Finn’s way and he lost...
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