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Disappointing Suzuka race for Williams

Williams head of performance engineering Rob Smedley has lamented a poor Japanese GP from his team, saying they were expecting the car to be a bit faster. The Grove squad started the race at Suzuka on a positive note as Valtteri Bottas was third on the grid behind the two Mercedes cars while team-mate Felipe Massa was fifth. Massa's race was all but over on the first lap after he picked up a puncture in his tussle with Daniel Ricciardo and, although Bottas ran third during the first stint, he eventually finished fifth behind the Ferraris of Sebastian Vettel and Kimi Raikkonen with the latter getting the better of him on the undercut. 'Not our best race, not by a long shot,' Smedley said....
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