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Bottas admits overthinking hurt his form in 2017
Valtteri Bottas admits he was overthinking and starting to drive unnaturally when his first Formula 1 season with Mercedes began to go awry. While teammate Lewis Hamilton took control of the championship battle with four wins from five grands prix after last year's summer break, Bottas started struggling to get the Mercedes to his liking and fell off the pace. He arrested that slide with pole for the penultimate race in Brazil and then a win in the Abu Dhabi season finale, but admits his run of poor performances had been mentally draining. "After struggling quite a lot for a couple of races, it wasn't easy mentally because I was quite confused in the beginning - like 'what's going...
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