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Bottas hails 'strong day' in Mexico, rues qualifying mistake

Valtteri Bottas was left ruing his error at the end of qualifying despite recovering to third place in Sunday’s Mexican Grand Prix after failing to pass either Sebastian Vettel or Mercedes teammate Lewis Hamilton through the final stint of the race. Bottas crashed hard at the end of Q3 on Saturday at the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez, leaving the Mercedes team to complete a significant rebuild of his car. It also meant Bottas could not improve on his final lap, forcing him to start the race from P6 on the grid. Bottas ran a long first stint on a one-stop strategy to leapfrog two-stopping drivers Charles Leclerc and Alexander Albon, and was bearing down on both Vettel and race leader...
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