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Bottas: Pastor forced me off the track
Valtteri Bottas has voiced his frustration after team-mate Pastor Maldonado forced him off the track on the final lap of the Japanese GP.
Fighting with Sergio Perez for position, Bottas was overtaken by the McLaren driver on the final lap while his team-mate Maldonado tried to take advantage of the situation.
Diving up the inside of Bottas, Maldonado forced his team-mate to run off the track in order to avoid a collision.
And Bottas isn't happy about it.
"I was trying to block him on the inside, but he braked so late that I didn't have anywhere to go other than straight over the chicane, so it was quite risky," the Finn told Autosport.
"If I had kept to my line, we would...
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