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Bottas baffled by Bahrain struggles

Valtteri Bottas says he is still in the dark as to why he struggled for pace during Sunday's Bahrain Grand Prix. Although the Finn started the night race from pole position, his first in Formula 1, he was down in third place at the finish line. Bottas not only lost out to race winner Sebastian Vettel but also Lewis Hamilton and was twice asked to move over for his Mercedes team-mate who showed superior pace. 'Stint one, we can explain the performance with the tyre pressures being just way too high,' Bottas said. 'It was feeling like on marbles. 'Stint two and three, there is no explanation why the rear end wasn't working. 'The slow pace was definitely because of the balance and because of...
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