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Remember when... Valtteri Bottas was benched by a bad back

As part of a daily series in the run-up to the start of pre-season, Motorsport Week brings you brief left-field reflections and stories of teams, drivers and reserve/test drivers that will be part of the Formula 1 paddock in 2019. Williams held high hopes of improving in 2015, having been best-of-the rest during the first year of the hybrid era, during which youngster Valtteri Bottas had stood out with a sequence of fine performances. But the season got off to a problematic start. Bottas struggled with a back complaint during qualifying for the Australian Grand Prix and, after setting the sixth-best time, had to be helped out of his FW37 at the conclusion of Q3. Bottas spent the night in...
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