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Raikkonen and Bottas at odds over Sochi shunt

  Fellow flying Finns Valtteri Bottas and Kimi Raikkonen exchanged heated words in the wake of their controversial last-lap crash and both refuse to take the blame. That is the claim of a third Finn, former double world champion Mika Hakkinen, who has weighed into the crash that cost Bottas a podium, Raikkonen a penalty and handed Mercedes an early constructors' championship win. Bottas was utterly furious after the impact, as amateur video emerged of him throwing first his cockpit collar onto the track, and then his gloves against the spectator fence. The stewards agreed, handing Ferrari's Raikkonen a post-race 30-second time penalty. Raikkonen, however, argued: 'I don't think it...
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