News Details

Bottas calls Canada GP a 'wake-up call'

Jun.12 Valtteri Bottas has described the Canadian GP race weekend as a personal "wake-up call". With his new beard on show after a lacklustre 2018, the Finnish driver came out of the box with surprisingly strong form early in 2019. But more recently, his championship lead has become a 29-point deficit to Mercedes teammate Lewis Hamilton. Mika Salo, a former F1 driver, said Bottas' performance was particularly "strange" in Canada. Bottas said his Montreal weekend started to go wrong in qualifying, with a messy lap meaning he qualified just sixth. He finished the race fourth. "I was really confident but I made some mistakes in Q3 and that cost me quite a lot of...
Full Story »
Share

You May Also Be Interested In...

Bottas sees Canadian Grand Prix performance as wake-up...

Valtteri Bottas concedes his damage limitation performance at the...
4y ago from Crash.net

Bottas had heat issues in Canada

On our recent review podcast, I wasn’t sure about what challenges...
4y ago from TheParcFerme.com

Canadian GP: Hamilton and Bottas lead the way in FP1

Mercedes fired its first warning shot of the Canadian GP weekend, with...
4y ago from F1i.com

Mercedes explain why Ferrari have 'upper hand' in...

Valtteri Bottas says Mercedes expect Ferrari to have the upper hand in...
4y ago from GPFans.com

Elsewhere On The Network

Popular On MGPToday.com

Martin believes Bagnaia still ‘the favourite'...

Current MotoGP championship leader Jorge Martin pinpoints Francesco...
23h ago from MotorsportWeek.c...

Popular On IndyCarToday.com

Palou plans to study how Dixon made race-winning fuel...

In IndyCar’s Grand Prix of Long Beach held last Sunday, Scott Dixon took...
13h ago from MotorsportWeek.c...

Herta: Newgarden contact was ‘borderline'

Colton Herta finished second in IndyCar’s Grand Prix of Long Beach on...

Popular On TotalWRC.com

Mārtiņš Sesks to drive M-Sport Ford Puma Rally1 in...

Latvia’s Mārtiņš Sesks will benefit from the support of WRC Promoter...
21h ago from MotorsportWeek.c...

Popular On GunnersToday.com

Midweek Premier League predictions: Public Order's...

Sports Mole takes on Public Order's Elis Lloyd-Jones for a Premier League...
54m ago from SportsMole.co.uk

Arsenal ready to sell star for 70m, Champions League...

Arsenal are reportedly ready to let Gabriel Jesus go this summer, and he's...
34m ago from CaughtOffside.com

Comments

Hottest News

Recent News


2014 GPToday.com
GPToday.com is not responsible for the news headlines and associated descriptions and images it indexes, the content of externally linked sites or the comments & postings of its users.

This website is unofficial and is not associated in any way with the Formula One group of companies. F1, FORMULA ONE, FORMULA 1, FIA FORMULA ONE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP, GRAND PRIX and related marks are trade marks of Formula One Licensing B.V.