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Lauda lauds Bottas after first win
With his first Formula 1 race win in the bag, Niki Lauda has told Valtteri Bottas what Emerson Fittipaldi once told him: the second will come easier. In his fifth year in Formula 1, and now racing for Mercedes, Bottas recorded his first race win in 81 starts at Sunday's Russian Grand Prix. The Finn made an epic start to shoot from third to first and in the latter stages held off a charging Sebastian Vettel. 'The first win, the first grand prix win, in a racing driver’s life, is always the most difficult,” Lauda told AFP. “I know from my own experience. “I remember mine very well because Emerson Fittipaldi called me – who was the World Champion – and he said...
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