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Bottas "creaks under the pressure" or was he just unlucky?

Valtteri Bottas has not been able to redeem his pole position for the second time in three races. However, this time he also had to deal with damage to his floor causing him to lose downward pressure. Giedo van der Garde thinks that that cost him the victory. "Bottas already had that problem on lap two," says the former F1 driver in his analysis for Ziggo Sport. "If your floor is broken, that's where so much downforce comes from. You also saw that thing just wasn't controllable. I think if he didn't have problems, he would have won. Anyway, that's not true and Hamilton just really did a world race." Robert Doornbos on the other side of the table has trouble getting Van...
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