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Bottas: I get to eat more than salad

Valtteri Bottas has counted himself as not among those drivers who are dieting hard ahead of the 2016 season and reveals that he has upped his salad in take as the issue of F1 drivers' weight limits again hit the headlines. Red Bull's Daniel Ricciardo admits he was told to lose five kilograms before Melbourne, while Toro Rosso rookie Carlos Sainz slammed the pressure put on drivers by the regulations to be lighter than is healthy. 'It's not safe and not the right way to go,' Sainz told Reuters. 'We like to be fit and thin, that's our job, but it's not our job to be extremely skinny.' But Bottas, who according to some reports dropped from 70 to 67 kilograms for the start of the heavier...
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