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Bottas: 'Not ideal start' leaves Mercedes in catch-up mode
Valtteri Bottas was looking forward to a trouble-free start to Mercedes' testing program in Bahrain but a gearbox issue has left the Brackley squad in catch-up mode. Bottas had just ventured out on the track on Friday morning for a routine installation lap when his W12 suffered a transmission problem that required a lengthy gearbox change by Mercedes' crews. Bottas only managed a handful of laps over the morning segment of the day that yielded little useful information. Teammate Lewis Hamilton was spared any major reliability issues when he took over in the afternoon, but the Briton nevertheless spent a considerable amount of time in the Mercedes garage, putting just 42 laps under his...
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