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Valtteri Bottas reprimanded for Stoffel Vandoorne FP3 incident
Mercedes’ Valtteri Bottas has received a reprimand, his first of the season, after being deemed culpable for an incident with Stoffel Vandoorne during practice in Belgium. Vandoorne, on a hot lap, was approaching Bottas, who had just come out of the pits, on the run through Eau Rouge/Raidillon. Vandoorne jinked left to pass Bottas through Kemmel but the Mercedes driver drifted to the left, forcing his McLaren counterpart onto the grass. Vandoorne was pitched into a high-speed spin and made only minimal contact with the barriers once he had sufficiently slowed. Stewards confirmed that Bottas “conceded the incident was his fault and that he had not seen Vandoorne approaching,...
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