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Toto Wolff: "Bottas would have been leading the championship after Baku"

Toto Wolff believes Valtteri Bottas demonstrated a step-up from his debut season at Mercedes in 2018. He claims the Finn should have been leading the championship after round four if it wasn't for unfortunate events. In the second half of the season, Bottas very much became Lewis Hamilton's wingman in his successful quest to beat Sebastian Vettel. But reflecting on the first part of the season, Wolff was left feeling impressed. "I think he performed at a higher level in the first half of the season and that is reflected by the points. He would have been leading the championship after Baku," Wolff told the press at the FIA Prize Gala. In Azerbaijan, Bottas was leading in the...
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