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Bottas blames bad luck for not being in title fight

With Lewis Hamilton and Sebastian Vettel so far ahead of everybody else, it seems as if they don’t have team mates in exactly the same machinery as they do. But they are there, and Hamilton’s team mate Valtteri Bottas believes he could have been in the title battle if it wasn’t for bad luck early on in the season. After Kimi Raikkonen’s victory in Austin, Bottas is now the only driver in the top three teams yet to record a win, despite finishing second in seven races. He has had races ruined from potential winning positions all season, the most notable being a puncture on the last few laps in Baku, retiring from second in Austria, being hit on the first lap by...
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