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Valtteri Bottas - How Mercedes’ Finnish star has reset and prepared for 2019
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"At the moment, the positive thing is that the season is over." That was Valtteri Bottas's immediate reaction after finishing fifth in Abu Dhabi last November, the final race in a rollercoaster 2018 campaign for the Finn which saw him fall short of his own lofty expectations. The winter, then, has been a chance for the Mercedes star to relax, refocus, re-train and reset. How has he done it? We followed the 29-year-old to Lapland to find out...
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