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Bottas worried: ‘Set-up isn't really for the wet'
Valtteri Bottas could struggle to recover from his grid penalty at Spa, the Finn worried that his W12 isn't set-up for the wet. Bottas qualified down in eighth place for Sunday's Belgian Grand Prix, his troubles exacerbated by his five-place grid penalty for causing a multi-car collision at the start of the Hungarian GP. As such he will start round 12 of the season from 12th place on the grid, moving up one place after Lando Norris' gearbox penalty was applied, with the Mercedes driver concerned that his car set up more for the dry. And the weather forecast is for anything but dry. 'Definitely, the set-up wasn't really for the wet,' Bottas said on Saturday evening. 'As a team, we ran quite...
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