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Bottas: Upgrade failures key to Williams' 2016 downfall
Williams driver Valtteri Bottas says that a lack of sufficient performance gains from upgrades, coupled with a focus on 2017 development, was what consigned the team to fifth place this year. Williams was the third-best team in F1 in 2014 and 2015, but slipped down the order in 2016, losing out to Force India in the battle for fourth in the second half of the campaign. For Bottas, the author of the Grove-based team's sole podium in 2016, the balance of power was tipped towards Force India after the European leg of the season, when Williams' upgrades didn't work out as intended. "It was around mid-season," Bottas said. "The European season, the end of the European season, the...
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