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Bottas' false start caused by misreading dashboard
Valtteri Bottas said he reacted to a change on his dashboard rather than the lights after making a false start in Hungary. Bottas lined up P2, but the Mercedes man sunk down the order after moving in his grid spot before the start, causing a lack of momentum once the lights did go out. It was Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel who said the Finn had jumped the start, but in the absence of intervention from the Stewards after the FIA race director Michael Masi said he hadn't triggered the sensors, Bottas recovered to finish P3 behind his race-winning team-mate Lewis Hamilton and Red Bull's Max Verstappen. And Bottas has now revealed that the error was down to something he was on his dashboard,...
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