GPI 2017 Austrian Grand Prix | Page 118

STILL IN THE FIGHT Bottas was so quick off the line at the start that both Vettel and Red Bull’s Daniel Ricciardo were immediately on the radio to their teams to raise the possibility he had jumped the lights. A stewards’ investigation revealed that it was legal, with an exceptional reaction time of 0.2 of a second recorded by the car’s transponder. Bottas said he never had any doubts, “I’m developing so much at every