Valtteri Bottas has to frustrate Max Verstappen in order to assist Mercedes teammates Lewis Hamilton at Russian GP. (AP Photo)
Russian Grand Prix: Valtteri Bottas has been given the job of attempting to decelerate Max Verstappen, who will begin within the twentieth place.
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- Last Updated:September 26, 2021, 15:46 IST
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Valtteri Bottas has been tasked with serving to Mercedes team-mate Lewis Hamilton by holding up championship chief Max Verstappen in Sunday’s Russian Grand Prix after being relegated to seventeenth spot on the grid having made a strategic engine change earlier than the race. A Mercedes spokesperson confirmed the choice to modify up Bottas’ energy unit was a tactical one, made after Red Bull’s Verstappen carried out an identical change. Verstappen begins in twentieth place, the backmarker on the grid, after taking over a fourth Honda energy unit.
Bottas, who certified in seventh spot on Saturday, is predicted to try to decelerate Verstappen as he makes an attempt to choose his means via the sphere.
This will permit Hamilton, who begins fourth on the grid, not solely to try to safe his a centesimal Grand Prix win but additionally overtake the Dutchman on the prime of the standings.
Verstappen presently holds a 5 level lead.
Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc and Nicholas Latifi of Williams can even begin on the again after taking over their very own new energy models.
McLaren’s Lando Norris took his first pole place and is joined on the entrance row by Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz.
The race is because of start at 1200 GMT.
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