Bottas keen to move on from ‘very unlucky’ race
Valtteri Bottas is ready to turn his attention to next weekend after what he described as a "very unlucky" first race at Silverstone.
Valtteri Bottas is ready to turn his attention to next weekend after what he described as a "very unlucky" first race at Silverstone.
Lewis Hamilton bagged his seventh Silverstone pole position as the W11s once again destroyed the field, clinching Mercedes' third front row lock out of 2020.
Valtteri Bottas is still hopeful he can beat Lewis Hamilton at the British Grand Prix despite missing out on pole position to his team-mate.
Mercedes are counting on cooler conditions enabling them to wrest back the advantage when it matters at the British Grand Prix.
Valtteri Bottas has reiterated that there is "no panic" despite the driver not yet having a deal with Mercedes for next season.
Jumping the start at the Hungarian GP, Mercedes has since made changes to Valtteri Bottas' dashboard to avoid that "kind of distraction".
Valtteri Bottas is confident he has the pace to prevent Lewis Hamilton from winning a record-equalling seventh World Championship title.
The only team to win races this season, Mercedes has already built up a lead in this year's titles races, but Valtteri Bottas says one never knows what could happen next.
Damon Hill thinks Valtteri Bottas may need to resort to mind games if he is to wrest the World Championship advantage from his team-mate Lewis Hamilton.
Michael Masi says "one team" questioned Valtteri Bottas' apparent jump start in Hungary but accepted that it was within the "tolerances".
Valtteri Bottas said he reacted to a change on his dashboard rather than the lights after making a false start in Hungary.
Valtteri Bottas says that, after his final lap in Q3, he thought he was in with a good shot of beating his team-mate to pole position.
Mercedes were again in a class of their own as Lewis Hamilton secured pole for the Hungarian Grand Prix ahead of team-mate Valtteri Bottas.
Valtteri Bottas laid down his marker in the battle at the Hungarian GP, edging Lewis Hamilton in Saturday's final practice.
Lewis Hamilton was the class of the field once more in FP1 – but expects Saturday’s running at the Hungarian Grand Prix to be “a lot closer”.