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F1 Japan: Bottas Tops Final Practice Despite Crash

Valtteri Bottas topped the final practice session at the Suzuka International Racing Course on Saturday morning, but ended his session after getting damage after hitting the wall. The Mercedes AMG Petronas Formula One Team racer had set a time of 1:29.055s to head the session, but ran wide coming out of Spoon, taking to the grass and brushing the barrier with both of his right-hand wheels. He was able to recover to the pits, but the damage to the car was enough to end his session with only nine laps completed, but he was not the only Finn to crash, as Kimi Raikkonen also ended his session with an incident, this time with a more severe crash into the tyre wall at Degner 2. The Scuderia...
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