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Bottas gets Rosberg's former race engineer

Published on 16 Feb 2017 09:15
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By: Rob Veenstra

Valtteri Bottas has inherited retired world champion Nico Rosberg's race engineer at Mercedes.Earlier, Tony Ross came to Mercedes from Williams, where in addition to Rosberg he also worked with the likes of Juan Pablo Montoya.

Now, the Briton will be the voice on Finn Bottas' radio. "My engineer will be Tony Ross. He was formerly Nico Rosberg's race engineer," Bottas, 27, confirmed to Ilta Sanomat newspaper. (GMM)

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