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Drivers were thrown in at the deep end: 'You better be careful then'.

It couldn't get much tougher than last Sunday for the drivers of Jolyon Palmer. After a completely dry weekend it started to rain just before the start of the Grand Prix, so the start was made on intermediates tyres. Rain at a difficult moment "This race start is the sort where you can gain some important ground, but equally you can destroy your race immediately," Palmer explained to F1.com. "If you go brave at Turn 1 you can look a hero if you pull it off, but a complete villain if you don’t, and that’s exactly what happened to both Valtteri Bottas and Lance Stroll at Turn 1." "In fact I’m not even sure Bottas was going brave, it seemed to me he was...
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