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Bottas dismisses suggestion of Mercedes team orders

Valtteri Bottas says he will go all out to win the Russian Grand Prix, dismissing the notion of Mercedes team orders favouring Lewis Hamilton's title fight with Sebastian Vettel. Bottas led a Mercedes front-row lockout in Sochi on Saturday, with Vettel half a second adrift in third. Hamilton has a 40-point lead in the drivers' championship with six races to go, while Mercedes lead Ferrari by 37 points in the team standings. Bottas is 110 points down on Hamilton's haul and has already conceded his title hopes are over for the year, with Mercedes having utilised the Finn to aid Hamilton already this year in Hungary and Italy. However, the Finn does not expect to have the chance of winning the...
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