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Bottas: These things happen but it just feels pretty sh!t
Mercedes race engineer Tony Ross may have absent-mindedly called Valtteri Bottas ‘Nico' during Sunday's Chinese GrandPrix but a blunder demonstrated just how much work the Finnish driver still faces to fill world champion Nico Rosberg's shoes. Bottas, who has replaced the retired Rosberg this season, ended up apologising to his team after spinning out behind the safety car while in fifth place as he was weaving across the track to warm up his tyres for the restart. The 'silly mistake', as Bottas himself called it, dropped him down the order and put him out of podium contention, with the 27-year-old eventually finishing sixth, 48 seconds behind his victorious team mate Lewis Hamilton....
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