Valtteri Bottas will start the 2020 Russian Grand Prix from P3, but thinks he is in prime position to take the race win.

After dominating Friday practice, Bottas’ Mercedes team-mate Lewis Hamilton grew into the race weekend at the Sochi Autodrom and went on to take pole for the Russian Grand Prix with a blistering 1:31.304 – but not before some big drama in Q2.

Bottas was left needing 0.65s on his team-mate which allowed Red Bull’s Max Verstappen to kick him off the front row and take P2 for the race start.

Fortunately for Bottas though P3 has proven to be a very handy grid position in the past at Sochi.

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