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Bottas was ‘quite confused in the beginning'

Valtteri Bottas admits he had a few doubts during last year's championship but believe he 'learnt massively' from it. Although Bottas had a good start to his Mercedes career, claiming his first race victory in Russia, he went off the boil midseason while at the same time Lewis Hamilton upped his game. While the Brit dominated after the summer break, winning three races on the trot, Bottas struggled to match his team-mate's form. And that, he concedes, was concerning. 'After struggling quite a lot for a couple of races, it wasn't easy mentally because I was quite confused in the beginning – like 'what's going on?',' he told Motorsport.com. 'For sure you also start to doubt what you're...
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