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Bottas helped Hamilton beat Verstappen – Marko

Jun.6 Mercedes sacrificed Valtteri Bottas so that his teammate Lewis Hamilton could get a major slipstreaming benefit in qualifying. That is the view of Dr Helmut Marko, as the open tension between Red Bull and the reigning world champion team continued to heat up at Baku. Mercedes' Hamilton and Bottas have struggled for pace on the Azerbaijan street layout, but in qualifying the seven time world champion was suddenly second. 'It was a big step,' Red Bull's Marko agrees, 'but we can't forget that Bottas helped him with a slipstream. 'That's at least five tenths of a second, so if you subtract that, I don't think they are at the very front. We can look forward to an exciting race,' the...
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