Instead, Bottas roared past both Sebastian Vettel and Kimi Raikkonen to seize the lead into the first corner in a move that decided the outcome.
"I can't explain right now but we'll do some work over this week to fully understand it", he said.
"But now it's done, I just want to do it again and again".
So far success has alternated between the two teams, with Vettel winning the opener in Australia, Hamilton in China, Vettel again in Bahrain and Valtteri Bottas taking his career first success in Russian Federation for the team he joined in January. At some point things might get a bit more tricky and tight. He stayed in the lead through most of the race, only falling back briefly during pit stops.
While Mercedes team-mate Valtteri Bottas produced a brilliant performance to secure his maiden F1 win at Sochi, Hamilton struggled with a lack of balance and an overheating vehicle in fourth place. It's not that simple this year. It will involve the teams introducing upgrades to their cars. But a little bit more happy about the safety vehicle race, actually. The temperature issues were causing one of his cylinders to cut out and he believed he was losing at least seven-tenths a lap. Considering he is only four races into his career with the world champions, Wolff says credit has to be given.
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So far Daniel Ricciardo and Max Verstappen have been unable to properly challenge Ferrari and Mercedes for leading positions in 2017, with Verstappen's third place in China Red Bull's only podium of the year. "I have some theories about how it felt in the race and qualifying, some ideas, but lots of work will be done to figure it out".
The split between the Mercedes drivers has favored Vettel, whose own Finnish team mate Kimi Raikkonen has scored 49 points to the German's 86 while Hamilton and Bottas are separated by just 10. However, despite the bullish talk from Bottas, Wolff remains confident that the two drivers, whom he has described before as having no baggage with one another, will remain friendly.
He said: "The relationship between the two of them is very much intact". Mercedes' other driver, Lewis Hamilton, started the race in fourth but couldn't follow his teammate through the red wall.
"I was going to be fourth from very early on".
"That is a completely different relationship".
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