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Palmer: Bottas was saved by the Safety Car

Despite winning from lights to flag, Jolyon Palmer says Sunday's Austrian Grand Prix was not one of Valtteri Bottas' best races. Formula 1 returned to racing at the Red Bull Ring this past weekend with Bottas putting his W11 on pole position. The Finnish driver out-qualified his team-mate Lewis Hamilton by 0.012s only for Hamilton to drop to fifth on the grid when he incurred a three-place grid penalty for ignoring the yellow flags that were waved for Bottas' late off in Q3. Instead Max Verstappen started second ahead of Lando Norris, Alexander Albon and Hamilton. The Brit's grid drop coupled with Norris fighting Verstappen for position throughout the opening lap meant Bottas was given an...
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