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Bottas: Poor starts compromised opportunity for race win

Valtteri Bottas wasn't in the mix for a race win at Silverstone on Sunday, a deficit the Mercedes driver pinned on his poor launches off the line on both starts. After the restart that followed the incident between Max Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton, Bottas lost a spot to McLaren's Lando Norris which then left him stranded in fourth place until his mid-race pitstop. The Finn reckoned he had fulfilled his role as the ideal teammate for Hamilton in the British Grand Prix, but the Mercedes driver lamented his laborious launches off the line. ©Mercedes "If I look at the whole picture, as a team, it was obviously a great day for us in terms of points – and for Lewis as well, being able...
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