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Villeneuve: Bottas may be replaced by Ocon during 2019

Jacques Villeneuve is predicting that Esteban Ocon could replace Valtteri Bottas at Mercedes during the course of next season, describing the Finn's dismal season finale Abu Dhabi Grand Prix an embarrassment, and not for the first time. Bottas finished fifth at Yas Marina last month, last of the Big Three team drivers still running at the end (Kimi Raikkonen retired early in the race) and 48 seconds down on teammate and race winner Lewis Hamilton. Reduced to Hamilton's wingman and clear number two in the team, this season's stats have been not kind to Bottas, he did not win a single race while his teammate bagged 11 including the one he was gifted thanks to team orders. Villeneuve said of...
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