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Bottas ignores low rating given by F1 team bosses
Despite his third place finish in the championship this season, Valtteri Bottas was only rated as the tenth best driver by F1's team bosses, but the Finn shrugs off the poll. The Mercedes driver clinched three wins in 2017, the first in his five-year F1 career. Yet, his achievement failed to impress team bosses who placed him one spot lower than in 2016 when he drove for Williams. "There’s always all kind of polls and stuff," said Bottas, speaking at the end-of-season FIA prize giving event in Paris yesterday. "I don’t really think about it, if I‘m under-rated or things like that. Really what matters is how I perform on track: how many races I will be able to win in...
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