When he’s got confidence like in monza and is prepared in advance for a penalty, his form can be excellent. I think Bottas has a problem with emotions effecting his performance and distracting him. But what seems unusual is that Bottas for once actually looked good when the rain came. There is no denying that if it hadn’t rained, his performance likely will have been so poor that he won’t have finished in the points. Given his performance here, it is highly likely that if the team did what he wanted, he will have gained 1 or 2 more places. However, his performance on the inters actually looked better than a lot of other drivers and he started doing rather a lot of passes at that stage – that were not just passing drivers in the pit lane. In an interview, he even admitted he struggled in the first stint and that he didn’t even see Verstappen which indeed is poor. He’s stating that pitting one lap earlier as he suggested on the radio could have effectively got the team an extra 5 points. “I think the rain kind of saved us today that we got some points,” he admitted.Īdvert | Become a RaceFans supporter and go not “demanding more points” It had been a difficult race up to that point for Bottas who struggled to make progress from his starting position of 16th after a power unit change. But still we were one of the early ones to stop, which was the right call.” “So I think with that we could have been on the podium. “I actually tried to come even one lap earlier but the team wasn’t ready. “I think we made the right call at the end and stopped early,” said Bottas. He believes he could have taken a spot on the rostrum had he come in straight away. “It’s pretty bad, we should have boxed,” Bottas told his team during the following lap, before coming in.īottas finished five seconds behind third-placed Carlos Sainz Jnr, with Daniel Ricciardo in between them. “Affirm it will continue,” Musconi replied, “but don’t box, stay out, stay out.” His race engineer Ricardo Musconi advised him “Raining at turn four, five,” towards the end of the lap. However Bottas revealed he discussed pitting a lap earlier as he approached the pits. He was running 14th at the time, and the early call lifted him to fifth place at the finish. He was among the first drivers to pit for intermediate tyres, on lap 47, when ran began to fall.

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