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‘Game over' for Bottas but Merc will delay announcement

Mercedes will not continue with Valtteri Bottas next season but Finnish racer Toni Vilander isn't expecting an early announcement. Nine races into this season, the 2021 championship still has a long way to go with another 14 races on the schedule. That's 14 races in which Mercedes need Bottas to perform as best he can as they try to wrestle back the lead from Red Bull in the title fights. But with the 31-year-old once again failing to match his team-mate Lewis Hamilton, or even act as rear gunner to the Brit, the Finnish driver and pundit reckons it is only a matter of time before Bottas gets his marching orders. 'It's game over,' Vilander told broadcaster MTV. He doesn't, however, believe...
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