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VIDEO: Bottas reacts to Mercedes team orders...
No surprise at all… Valtteri Bottas was not best pleased with Mercedes deploying team orders to benefit Lewis Hamilton at the Russian Grand Prix. Bottas led from pole but was ordered to let Hamilton through after his teammate suffered tyre blistering in a battle with title rival Sebastian Vettel.
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