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Bottas: ‘I have not been very comfortable'
Valtteri Bottas could only manage P4 in qualifying in Italy, having struggled with the set-up of his Mercedes all weekend. The Finn made some changes to his car’s set-up during Saturday morning’s FP3 but admitted that it did not make much of a difference before qualifying. 'I think today has been difficult. We tried some setup changes for FP3 from yesterday,' Bottas said. 'It was better in the corners but under braking we lost performance. 'It became very easy to make mistakes and have lock-ups. So I didn’t really have any clean laps this morning. 'Then in qualifying it was getting better and better but still in Q3, I had a lock-up into Turn 1 and lost half a second.' The Mercedes...
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