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Bottas still confident in his chances for French GP win

Valtteri Bottas thinks that he can recover from missing out on pole position for the French Grand Prix to Mercedes AMG Motorsport team-mate Lewis Hamilton. Bottas was the fastest man in Free Practices 2 and 3 at Circuit Paul Ricard, and was less than six hundredths of a second adrift of Hamilton's pace setting time in Friday morning's first practice session. But the Finn could not collate a strong enough lap in qualifying to prevent Hamilton from taking his 86th Formula 1 career pole and ended up 0.286 seconds slower than the five-time world champion. Bottas said that the chicane combination of Turns 8 and 9 that splits the Mistral straight caused him the most problems in Qualifying 3, and...
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