Valtteri Bottas - How Mercedes’ Finnish star has reset and prepared for 2019
"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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