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Bottas regrets decision to stay with new aero package
Valtteri Bottas says he regrets sticking with the aerodynamic upgrade that Mercedes brought for the Malaysian Grand Prix, after qualifying almost seven tenths slower than teammate Lewis Hamilton at Sepang. Hamilton decided to ditch the new package – which includes a wider 'nose cape' just behind the front wing – ahead of today's sessions, while Bottas opted to plough on and try to make it work having beaten Hamilton while using it in FP3. While Hamilton took pole position with a lap of 1m30.076s, Bottas could only manage a Q3 best of 1m30.758s. "It's easy to say afterwards, but if I could do the qualifying again for sure I'd go for the other package," Bottas told NBCSN....
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