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Mercedes: Third stop gave Bottas best chance to pass Verstappen

Mercedes have shed further light on Valtteri Bottas' performance in Sunday's Hungarian GP, explaining the two key factors that saw the Finn finish third. In what can reasonably termed a disappointing result, Bottas was quickly demoted from his P2 start position after trying to self-correct a jump start, and was unable to pass Red Bull's Max Verstappen to regain it in the race's latter stages. Speaking in a fan Q&A on Mercedes' YouTube channel, Formula 1 trackside engineering director Andrew Shovlin has offered further detail on the problems Bottas encountered. “Valtteri’s issue was actually that he reacted to one of the lights on his dash that flickered,' he send. 'And that’s because...
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