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'I Hated the Race': Bottas Almost Gave up the F1 in 2018

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Valteri Bottas revealed that he had made the decision to leave Formula 1 in 2018, after having failed to win any race while his teammate Lewis Hamilton dominated the championship with Mercedes F1. Although Mercedes has always maintained that she did not have a hierarchy between first and second drivers and that she offered the two riders maximum opportunities to win, Bottas wrote in The Players' Tribune that he knew his role. "He was the champio…
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Valteri Bottas revealed that he had made the decision to leave Formula 1 in 2018, after having failed to win any race while his teammate Lewis Hamilton dominated the championship with Mercedes F1. Although Mercedes has always maintained that she did not have a hierarchy between first and second drivers and that she offered the two riders maximum opportunities to win, Bottas wrote in The Players' Tribune that he knew his role. "He was the champio…

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Nextgen-Auto.com broke the news on Tuesday, May 5, 2026.
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