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Surer: Bottas Bahrain strategy was team call to pressure Verstappen
Article To news overview © Bahrain Valtteri Bottas was once again left frustrated in Bahrain by team strategy calls, when a pit stop intended to undercut the second-place Red Bull of Max Verstappen went awry and he was forced to be stationary for 10 seconds.After the race the Mercedes driver was critical of his team’s decision to pull him in when they did, and said that the strategy calls were not aggressive enough to put him in reach of a potential race win.And former Formula 1 driver Marc Surer told Motorsport-Total he thinks the decision by the team to call the Finn in when they did was a deliberate move to support race leader Hamilton in his battle with Verstappen."[Wolff]...
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