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F1 | Sao Paulo GP | Bottas Happy With P1 Finish After Gambling With Soft Tyre Choice

Valtteri Bottas of Mercedes-AMG talks about an interesting sprint qualifying as he was able to maintain P1 after a launching start to keep Red Bull's Max Verstappen at bay.

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F1 | Sao Paulo GP | Bottas Happy With P1 Finish After Gambling With Soft Tyre Choice
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Valtteri Bottas took the lead right away and drove a strong race to finish first, earning his 20th career pole position.

His three points were a significant boost to the constructors' standings as team Mercedes increase their lead to 2.

Bottas comments, "Today the start was the key thing for me and I got a good one! We gambled a little bit with the soft tyre."

He adds, "We knew that it would be a benefit for the start and it worked and it was all about trying to survive until the end."

He continues, "It was quite tricky in the final laps but Max still struggled to follow in the corners, so I’m glad it worked out perfectly."

He concludes, "The support here from the fans has been amazing here, so thank you as well to everybody who came out today!"

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