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2020 FIA Formula One World Championship
70th Anniversary Grand Prix
Silverstone Circuit
Silverstone, England
Sunday, 09 August 2020
Mercedes driver Valtteri Bottas will be hoping to secure his second win of the 2020 season at the
70th Anniversary Grand Prix on August 09.
The Finnish driver, who finished second on last year's Drivers' Championship standings behind his teammate Lewis Hamilton, has been inconsistent since he won the first race of the 2020 season in Austria.
Bottas is coming off a disappointing 11th spot finish at the British Grand Prix on August 02 which was the latest race in the current campaign.
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The entertaining race was won by Hamilton and he was followed by Red Bull star Max Verstappen and Ferrari driver Charles Leclerc respectively.
Bottas looked destined to finish second in the race before the 30-year-old driver suffered a front-left tyre failure with four laps to go, forcing him to crawl back to the pits.
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However, Bottas remains second on the Drivers' Championship standings having accumulated 58 points which is six more than third-placed Verstappen.
Hamilton, who has won the last three races, is sitting pretty at the top of the Drivers' Championship standings with 88 points.
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Bottas remains hopeful that he can catch Hamilton and go on to clinch his maiden Formula One world title this season.
"Of course it's not ideal [finishing 11th in the British Grand Prix]. For the moment, if everything goes to plan with the calendar, I think there's going to be more than 10 races to go," Bottas said.
"But you just don't know, so obviously the best bet would be to be on top of the points all of the time. It's a big loss of points. These kinds of things, you can't really afford, but obviously it happened.
"Yes Lewis had a good race, but he also got away with it in a way. What can I do? What can I say? It's not ideal, but you can't change what has happened. I'll keep pushing and keep believing. You just never know what will happen."
Mercedes are sitting at the top of Constructors' standings and they are followed by Red Bull and McLaren respectively.
2020 British Grand Prix results
Winner: Lewis Hamilton - Mercedes
Runner-Up: Max Verstappen - Red Bull
Third-Place: Charles Leclerc - Ferrari
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