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Mercedes caught ‘sleeping' as winning streak ends

Valtteri Bottas has said Mercedes were caught 'sleeping' by Red Bull as the team's winning streak ended at the 70th Anniversary Grand Prix. The Silver Arrows had won all four races since the revised 2020 season finally got underway in July and were poised to extend that winning run to five with Bottas and Lewis Hamilton lining up 1-2 on the grid at Silverstone. But tyre talk once again dominated the race and while neither Bottas nor Hamilton suffered the same dramatic blow-outs as seen at the British Grand Prix, they notably struggled to look after them in the hotter track temperatures. Bottas was forced to ditch his medium tyres after just 13 laps and pitted for another set of hards on...
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