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Bottas trusts Mercedes' approach to team orders
Valtteri Bottas believes that if the time comes to implement team orders at Mercedes, his role will be dealt with in a fair way by his team. Lewis Hamilton's defeat at Spa at the hands of Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel still allowed the Brit to maintain his lead in the championship standings over his arch-rival. On the eve of the Italian Grand Prix, Bottas trails his team mate by 87 points, a deficit that could soon justify team orders at the Silver Arrows squad, a prospect that he hopes would not rule him out of an outright win if circumstances allowed it. "For sure it will be different, in terms of how you approach the weekend, but I think the team would still support both of us a...
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