Valtteri Bottas reflects on Mercedes F1 stint: I can be unbeatable
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Valtteri Bottas the former Mercedes driver has reflected on his five-year run with the Mercedes Formula1 team. Valtteri joined the silver arrows in 2017 and played a crucial part in helping the Brackley-based team win five consecutive constructors titles.
It has been stated in racingnews365 that while reflecting on his career with Mercedes Valtteri Bottas has said “I honestly feel like on my best days, whether its a race or qualifying, I’m unbeatable, but unfortunately, I always don’t have the best days.” Valtteri Bottas managed to win 10 races in his 5-year spell with the Mercedes Formula1 team.
He believes that luck was not on his side on most occasions during his time at Mercedes and has further added that “But I have to say in the five years, there’ve been moments that I don’t know if I should cry or laugh about my luck, because I don’t really feel like I have been the luckiest driver with many things.”
Valtteri Bottas on the relentless nature of Lewis Hamilton’s performances
While reflecting on his time at Mercedes he has given a special mention to the former 7-time world champion Lewis Hamilton. He has applauded the brit by saying that while he was a bit inconsistent with his performances, Lewis on the other hand was relentless with his sheer pace and consistency in delivering race after race.
He believes it is hard to go up against a guy who is consistent in his races and has got a lot of skill and racecraft to win races from tough situations.
During Valtteri’s time at Mercedes, Lewis won 4 driver’s championships whereas Valtteri was only able to act in a supporting role to Lewis. Valtteri admitted that “I can’t say I exceeded anything. Where I feel like I failed, obviously I didn’t manage to win the driver’s championship. But it wasn’t simple alongside Lewis. He always got the upper hand.”
Valtteri while talking about the 2021 season said that as his career the 2021 season was also full of bad luck as he had quite a few crashes and was given engine penalties throughout the season. Valtteri thinks he was a bit hard done by at Mercedes and could have had more success if luck was with him during the 5 years at Mercedes.
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