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Bottas in need of ‘miracle' to rescue 2020 F1 title hopes

Mercedes’ Valtteri Bottas has admitted that he needs a miracle to recover any Formula 1 title hopes in 2020 following his retirement at the Eifel Grand Prix. Bottas dropped out of the race with a Power Unit issue shortly after he relinquished the lead to team-mate Lewis Hamilton following a mistake at Turn 1. With Hamilton going on to win the grand prix ahead of Red Bull’s Max Verstappen, Bottas now sits 69 points behind in the Championship with just six races left to go. “It’s disappointing, of course, just very, very disappointing but it’s one of these things you cannot do anything about it,” Bottas said. “Obviously, I also had the lock up before that but, still, I still...
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