Valtteri Bottas has no idea what happened to his pace in Baku last weekend after he was out-qualified by Zhou Guanyu for the first time this year. Zhou qualified 14th, one position ahead of the Finn after Bottas had narrowly squeezed into Q2, and the young Chinese driver was also running ahead of Bottas for
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It was an Azerbaijan Grand Prix to forget for Kevin Magnussen, after the Dane was forced to retire from the GP with a suspected power unit failure. Out of the five drivers to retire from the race, four were powered by Ferrari PUs; though not all DNFs appeared to be PU related. Magnussen’s, however, most
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Alfa Romeo’s Valtteri Bottas has conceded that he wondered how long his career might go on for while he was at Mercedes. Bottas won 10 races in five seasons with the Silver Arrows, and helped them to the Constructors’ Championship in all five years, securing 21 one-two finishes together with team-mate Sir Lewis Hamilton. However,
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Esteban Ocon recently featured on the Beyond the Grid podcast, where he spoke all about his Formula 1 journey to date. The Frenchman, who is only 25 years old, has already had a turbulent career in the sport. Ocon’s F1 career appeared to be over before it had really gotten going, after being booted from
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It comes as no shock to Alfa Romeo team principal Frederic Vasseur that Valtteri Bottas has performed so well so far in 2022. Bottas has out-qualified rookie team-mate Zhou Guanyu in all of the opening seven rounds of the year, and he has scored points in six of them, the only exception being Jeddah, when
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Alfa Romeo, AlphaTauri and Red Bull have all been punished by the stewards for speeding in the pit lane during practice ahead of the Monaco Grand Prix. Throughout practice, the speed limit in the pit lane is set at 60kph, and is then raised to 80kph for the remainder of the weekend, and Yuki Tsunoda
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Alfa Romeo’s Valtteri Bottas has quipped that he may just start rocking up to race weekends after practice following yet another issue in Monaco on Friday. The Finn was unable to take any real part in the opening practice session of the season in Bahrain in March, before an issue in Imola a few weeks
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Alfa Romeo’s Valtteri Bottas believes that the performance of the car during qualifying in Monaco is track specific. Neither Bottas nor team-mate Zhou Guanyu made it to the third qualifying session on Saturday, with Zhou rooted to the bottom of the timing screens in P20. Bottas ended up in P12 in Q2, meaning that, while
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Since leaving the Mercedes F1 Team, Valtteri Bottas has re-found the speed and quality which resulted in the Silver Arrows signing him in the first place. Bottas has instantly gelled with the Alfa Romeo F1 Team, and has been delivering impressive results so far this season. The Finn finished sixth last weekend at the Spanish
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Former team-mates Lewis Hamilton and Valtteri Bottas have always appeared to share a great relationship, however, this friendship has taken a further step after Hamilton dramatically revealed what he’d like to purchase. The former Mercedes F1 Team duo won five constructors’ championships together, making them one of the most decorated partnerships in the sport’s history.
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