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Bottas: Last laps were 'like driving on ice'
Valtteri Bottas described his final laps of the British Grand Prix as if it were 'like driving on ice' as he tried to fend off Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel for the race win. Bottas was on worn medium tyres towards the latter stages of the race and was slowly clawing the gap back to Vettel until the Safety Car was called out for the Sauber of Marcus Ericsson who had buried himself into the barrier at the exit of Turn 1. Both Ferrari's and Red Bull's pitted for fresh soft tyres for a final charge to victory while both Bottas and team-mate Lewis Hamilton had to stay out because they did not have the same option available. After the second Safety Car period for the crash...
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