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While Lewis Hamilton has been active on social media this winter, a number of other drivers have been providing snippets of their off-seasons too. For Valtteri Bottas, he's back at home in Finland and posted this picture on Instagram of the temperature reading from his car on Wednesday morning which might suggest he will need to head elsewhere for some warm weather training. Then again, if yesterday's picture of Sochi is anything to go by, maybe he's preparing for this year's Russian Grand Prix!

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Andrew Lewin

Andrew first became a fan of Formula 1 during the time when Michael Schumacher and Damon Hill were stepping into the limelight after the era of Alain Prost, Nigel Mansell and Aryton Senna. He's been addicted ever since, and has been writing about the sport now for nearly a quarter of a century for a number of online news sites. He's also written professionally about GP2 (now Formula 2), GP3, IndyCar, World Rally Championship, MotoGP and NASCAR. In his other professional life, Andrew is a freelance writer, social media consultant, web developer/programmer, and digital specialist in the fields of accessibility, usability, IA, online communities and public sector procurement. He worked for many years in magazine production at Bauer Media, and for over a decade he was part of the digital media team at the UK government's communications department. Born and raised in Essex, Andrew currently lives and works in south-west London.

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