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The wrong Mercedes driver is leading the world championship

What a start to the 2018 season it's been.

Four races have produced three different winners from three different teams, and every single one of those four grands prix could have gone another way. The championship is wide open and we've already got a feisty intra-team rivalry brewing at Red Bull between two of the most talented drivers on the grid. The only downside to unpredictable racing is that someone usually loses out, and on Sunday it was Valtteri Bottas.

Had it not been for a piece of debris on the pit straight three laps from the chequered flag, Bottas would be leading the championship with 65 points ahead of Sebastian Vettel on 64 and Lewis Hamilton on 63.