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Bottas hadn t realised costly Williams tyre blunder
Valtteri Bottas says he wasn't aware he was driving on a mis-matched set of tyre compounds during his second stint of the Belgian Grand Prix until he was informed he had to serve a drive-through penalty for the blunder. Having qualified in third position, Bottas was already enduring a disappointing race after slipping down to seventh in the early stages, only for it to get worse when a mix-up at the first pit-stop saw the team fit a medium right-rear tyre amongst a set of soft tyres. Landing him a drive-through penalty as a result, Bottas admits he wasn't aware there was even a problem until he asked why he was being called in, saying the car was surprisingly 'driveable'. “They told me...
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