“I completely lost the joy of F1,” Valtteri Bottas confirms considering retiring in 2018 after being outclassed by Lewis Hamilton on a regular basis
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Valtteri Bottas, the present Alfa Romeo driver, confirmed his retirement plans after the end of a frustrating year, 2018, but kept his racing gloves on for the years ahead. Valtteri has 10 wins in his career, but he got none in 2018 even though being inside the Championship-winning car that year, W9.
Valtteri gave out his reasons for the thoughts provoking him to exit the sport after a devastating season, being completely beaten by his teammate, who eventually became the world champion that year, Lewis Hamilton. Bottas joined the Mercedes team at the start of 2017, he was all ready to take up another year in the Williams but the shocking retirement of the 2016 world champion, Nico Rosberg, made the Finn the first choice for the Silver Arrow as a driver.
In 2017 won a few races, being his first season in a Mercedes was a good achievement, but he went on to win none in 2018 and lost to his teammate in both the years. “At the end of 2018, I almost stopped, it was so close. Just because of the fact that I couldn’t understand and take the fact that I couldn’t beat Lewis in those two years,” Bottas said.
Valtteri Bottas almost took his steps out of F1 due to Anger issues
Bottas was left totally hurt after his second year in Mercedes, he was given a role to support his teammate fighting for the title with Sebastian Vettel and was eventually made the second driver of the team. This took out all the sweet taste the 10-time race winner had for the sport and later thought to quit it.
“The human mind is strange in a way that sometimes you go into dark places. You lose the joy in things and I just completely lost the joy of F1 and racing in F1. I was almost angry at F1,” Bottas said.
Valtteri Bottas took all his anger as a challenge and went on to win the first race of 2019, which was the best start of the season anyone would expect to have, but later went to lose his third fight to his teammate.
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