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Bottas: F1 2020 title hopes already slipping away

by Ryan Wood
3 years ago
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Bottas: F1 2020 title hopes already slipping away

Race winner Lewis Hamilton (GBR) Mercedes AMG F1 celebrates on the podium with team mate Valtteri Bottas (FIN) Mercedes AMG F1. Spanish Grand Prix, Sunday 16th August 2020. Barcelona, Spain.

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Mercedes’ Valtteri Bottas has admitted the Formula 1 World Championship is “drifting away” from him after another weekend in which he dropped points to championship leader and team-mate Lewis Hamilton.

Bottas opened his 2020 Formula 1 season in strong form, taking pole position and victory at the season opener in Austria, whilst Hamilton finished fourth, following contact with Alexander Albon.

But since that race the Briton, who is chasing a record-equalling seventh title, has gone on to take four wins to open a 43-point lead over Bottas, who now sits third in the standings behind Red Bull’s Max Verstappen.

During that period Bottas has only once finished second, mounting the bottom step of the podium three times, and failed to score at Silverstone after his late tyre failure.

Speaking immediately after last weekend’s Spanish GP, Bottas, who finished third once again, admitted the situation is “far from ideal” and he recognises that the title is slipping away once again.

“Very disappointed of course, it’s far from ideal,” he said. “I have no clue what the points difference is, but it’s way too big and I can see again the championship drifting away.

“It will take a couple of days to look at everything and see what went wrong and move on. It’s very disappointing but I will always bounce back.”

Asked to evaluate his season so far, Bottas summed it up in two words: “pretty bad”.

“Apart from the first race it has been pretty bad,” he added. “There’s not been a weekend that has gone without issue, apart from the first one.

“Pretty bad season so far, obviously that’s disappointing so yes, nice to have a break. Hopefully we still have many more races to go, maybe even ten or something like this, I hope so. But so far, far from ideal.”

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1Lewis HamiltonMercedes1225P26P, FL25P19FL25P2525P-1511347
2Valtteri BottasMercedes25P1815015P16FL044182223
3Max VerstappenRed Bull0151819FL2518819FL025P2214
4Sergio PerezRacing Point886--101802501125
5Daniel RicciardoRenault044120016107FL119
6Carlos SainzMcLaren103FL20081010128105
7Alex AlbonRed Bull010104104615812105
8Charles LeclercFerrari1800151201210098
9Lando NorrisMcLaren16FL12010215FL1211097
10Pierre GaslyAlpha Tauri6006020804175
22Jack AitkenWilliams--------0-
23Pietro FittipaldiHaas--------00
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  1. Ryan Wood says:
    3 years ago

    Such a shame, he’s a good number two, never meant to win a title.

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