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Bottas: 2018 struggles made me ‘a lot tougher'
Valtteri Bottas feels the struggles he endured in 2018 made him 'a lot tougher' as both a driver and a person. Of the five seasons the Finn spent driving for Mercedes the second of them was perhaps his most difficult, being the only one in which he failed to win a race. That was not entirely his own fault, with punctures and team orders taking all-but-certain victories away from him in Azerbaijan and Russia respectively, but his performances often were not great either. While he feels luck was not on his side, he admits he struggled to get to grips with his machinery that year too. '2018, being very honest, it was not my favourite car,' he said in a YouTube video on the Mercedes channel...
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