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Bottas fends off Hamilton for redemptive Azerbaijan GP win
Valtteri Bottas held off Mercedes teammate Lewis Hamilton to claim his second victory of the 2019 Formula 1 season at the Azerbaijan Grand Prix on Sunday. Hamilton made the better start to challenge polesitter into Turn 1 before the Mercedes duo went wheel-to-wheel through the opening sequence of corners, but Bottas just fended off Hamilton’s attack to maintain the lead at Turn 3. Barring a spell out front for the out-of-sequence Charles Leclerc - running longer into the race on Medium tyres following his qualifying crash that left him eighth on the grid - Bottas controlled proceedings throughout to claim a redemptive victory in Baku, a year on from being cruelly robbed by a late...
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