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Verstappen: I'm going to claim my third place seat again
All but conceding defeat before the lights have gone out, Max Verstappen said on Friday that he has resigned himself to claiming 'my seat again' as he was third behind the two Mercedes in practice Friday ahead of the season-ending Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. The Red Bull driver was returning to a theme he raised last weekend in Bahrain after qualifying third behind two Mercedes drivers for the fifth time in six races. He was taken out of Sunday's Sakhir Grand Prix in a first lap crash. On Friday, Verstappen was seven-tenths of a second adrift of Valtteri Bottas and half a second from Lewis Hamilton, who returned after a bout of Covid-19, to drive at the Yas Marina Circuit. That meant he occupied...
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