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Bottas: 'I've been missing that, so more of this!'
Valtteri Bottas was delighted to be back in winning form again for the first time since the Azerbaijan Grand Prix in April. Bottas was able to swoop around the slow-starting Sebastian Vettel at the start of Sunday's Japanese Grand Prix to claim the lead into turn 1. "Obviously Valtteri not blinking an eyelid when Seb stalled and getting into the lead was the decisive moment of the race," commented Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff. "Lewis in third was a little bit a rock in a hard place." After that, while he briefly surrendered the spot for nine laps during the pit stops to his Mercedes team mate, Bottas never looked under serious threat at Suzuka. "I enjoyed it...
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