Motor racing-Bottas shoots down speculation about a mid-season move

REUTERS: Valtteri Bottas shot down media speculation on Thursday that he could be replaced as Lewis Hamilton's Mercedes team mate midway through the season and said such talk was just part of being in Formula One.

He has two third places and retired in Imola after a collision with Mercedes-backed Williams driver George Russell, touted as a possible replacement, who was trying to overtake for ninth place. "I know that I'm not going to be replaced in the middle of the season," Bottas told reporters at the Spanish Grand Prix when asked whether he found the reports distracting."As a team, we don't do that. I have a contract for this year and I think there's only one team that does that kind of thing in F1 and we're not that ," he added.

Red Bull have stood out for mid-season switches in recent years, moving drivers between their two teams.

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