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Bottas: 'I would have pulled away from Massa'
Valtteri Bottas feels as though he would have been able to pass team-mate Felipe Massa and then pull a gap, which would have improved his chances of winning the British Grand Prix. Sadly for the Finnish driver, the team told him to hold station behind Massa and only when Bottas's tyres had faded did they give him permission to overtake, halting his chances of victory. "I feel I would have been able to have pulled a gap," he said after the race in which he eventually finished fifth despite running in second at one point. "I'm guessing [I could have gone] half a second per lap [quicker] because on the in-lap I was nearly one second quicker [than Massa]." Whilst he agrees...
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