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mmccarthy

https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/bottas-russian-gp-grid-penalty-engine-change/6674900/

"For Valtteri, we are still thinking about possible strategic decisions to be taken in the next hour or two on what the best and quickest race strategy could be for him," he said when asked by Motorsport.com about Mercedes' strategy options for Sochi.

Gives Valtteri a new engine sending him to the back of the grid after doing the same thing last race, top trolling by Wolff

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Poppy in reply to @mmccarthy

TBH Valtteri seems to be pretty fucking useless right now, case of "you had one job".

Obviously however, he's a gazzilion times better than I would ever be!

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mmccarthy in reply to @Poppy

Useless from whose POV though. Mercedes have routinely used him only as a barrier to Hamilton and now that he's got no reason to put up with it I wouldn't be surprised if he's given up playing the team game.

I did love hearing the Sky folks completely surprised that he didn't fight Verstappen harder. The guy's just had his 2nd consecutive back of the grid start, in this instance for the sole purpose of holding up Verstappen, he's leaving the team at the end of the year and is likely done with being there solely to help Hamilton. On a slightly tangential note there was a wonderful moment pre-race where they were talking about how Verstappen's going to have such a tough race from way back in the field, and I think it was Di Resta who chipped in saying that Hamilton's got a similar problem.

I remember the flak Ferrari took when they gave Massa a new gearbox incurring a 5-place drop at the end of the 2012 season, as well as the obvious Barrichello treatment. The double-standards at play does provide a good chuckle if nothing else!

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