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Three-place grid drop for Bottas after ‘dangerous' pit incident
Styrian Grand Prix – Valtteri Bottas has been given a grid penalty and points on his license for his pit lane spin during FP2 this afternoon. In the final twenty minutes of the day’s second free practice session Bottas pulled away from the Mercedes pit box, lit up his tyres and lost control of the rear. The car spun and slid further before coming to a halt sideways just past the McLaren garage, where quite a few members of the team were in the pit lane. McLaren helped right the Mercedes and get him on his way but also radioed the Race Director, Michael Masi, to let him know they were not impressed and there could have been much more dire consequences to the incident saying:...
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