WATCH: Valtteri Bottas Spun By Daniel Ricciardo At Turn 1 Of Mexico GP

WATCH: Valtteri Bottas Spun By Daniel Ricciardo At Turn 1 Of Mexico GP

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After witnessing an edge-of-the-seat start at the Mexico GP, Valtteri Bottas of Mercedes was spun by Daniel Ricciardo in the very first lap of the race. Bottas, who had a fantastic qualifying session yesterday alongside teammate, Lewis Hamilton. Valtteri Bottas started from pole position in the Mexico GP as he was the fastest on Saturday. Even though there were all sorts of problems for Red Bull on Saturday as they failed to claim a front-row lockup, but Verstappen secured a dream start with Sergio Perez as both the Red Bull’s stay in podium places after the drama of lap 1 in the Mexico Grand Prix.

Verstappen started P3 in the race and found the slip-stream, he instantly pounced on the opportunity to overtake both Hamilton and Bottas going into the turn 1. The Dutch was alongside both the Mercedes‘ at turn 1 as he overtook both of them to claim the P1 position. While Hamilton somehow went ahead without getting hurt, his teammate Valtteri Bottas was caught up in the action as he suffered a big hit by Daniel Ricciardo of McLaren. This caused Bottas to spin and end up at P18.

WATCH: Valtteri Bottas suffers a big blow by Daniel Ricciardo

The drama of lap 1 also included the collisions of Yuki Tsunoda( AlphaTauri) and Mick Schumacher (Haas) which forced both the drivers to retire and the safety car was deployed instantly.

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