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Hamilton couldn't beat Vettel without Bottas - Wolff

Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff says the Silver Arrows and Lewis Hamilton would not have ended 2018 with a fifth-consecutive drivers' and constructors' title double without Valtteri Bottas, despite the Finn failing to win a race across the entire campaign. Bottas became just the third driver in the 21st Century to go winless in a season driving a championship-winning car and admitted that his year had "turned to shit" after a season-ending Abu Dhabi GP that similarly turned sour after a promising start. The season's positive start came for Bottas in the shape of Chinese and Azerbaijan Grands Prix that might have gone his way with better fortune – an untimely safety car...
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