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Bottas: Losing title battle to Hamilton ‘unavoidable'

Valtteri Bottas was happy with his victory at the United States GP, knowing losing the title fight with team-mate Lewis Hamilton was 'unavoidable'. Bottas and Hamilton squabbled over the race lead in the closing stages with Bottas winning out, putting himself back into the P1 spot which he needed to keep the Championship battle going into the Brazilian GP. But even with that victory Hamilton needed only P8 to win his sixth title, so P2 more than did the job for the now six-time World Champion. And while Bottas is now eliminated from the title picture, it hasn't hit him too hard since he saw it as 'unavoidable' anyway. “It was a good weekend, and definitely a place I will look forward to...
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