Valtteri Bottas admits that his F1 2020 crusade has been ”pretty bad”, so he slides 43 issues adrift from Lewis Hamilton in the name fight.
Valtteri Bottas has described the F1 crusade of 2020 as “pretty bad” so far after the promise of his first-round victory in Austria was extinguished through a series of poor effects compared to teammate Lewis Hamilton.
As he did in 2019, the Finn began the season with good taste with a Red Bull Ring victory from the start, sparking hopes for a imaginable name war with teammate Hamilton six times.
However, since then, Bottas has struggled to fit the Briton into the race and has been hampered by thorny issues, adding to the outbreak of the race at Silverstone that left him out of the points.
Although he is still at the start of a season that is expected to surpass the 13 recently confirmed laps, Bottas already has 43 fewer problems than Hamilton in qualifying, while a good form of Red Bull’s Max Verstappen has also noticed. push it to the position at the moment in the general classification.
In fact, Bottas has a damning assessment of her season so far, calling it “pretty bad” from the moment set.
“Apart from the first race, it was pretty bad. There was no weekend that happened well and undained in the first. So a pretty bad season so far.
“Obviously it’s disappointing, so it’s great to take a break. I hope we still have a lot of races left, even up to 10 or something. I hope so. It’s far from ideal.”
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