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Bottas slapped with three-place grid penalty

Sutton Images Enlarge Valtteri Bottas has been given a three-place grid penalty for impeding Daniel Ricciardo during the second session of qualifying at the Malaysian Grand Prix. Bottas was accused of holding up Ricciardo towards the end of the lap, with the stewards judging that he "did not pay attention to the approaching car and continued to impede car 3 [Ricciardo] through Turns 14 and 15". However, the Williams driver did not agree with the stewards' assessment. "I thought that it would be okay, that there would be no penalties, but then there was a three-place penalty," he said. "From our point of view it was quite difficult from our situation because we had...
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