News Details

Bottas: Bahrain GP has highlighted Mercedes' weaknesses

Valtteri Bottas says his defeat to Sebastian Vettel at the Bahrain Grand Prix has “opened Mercedes’ eyes” to the weaknesses on its 2018 Formula 1 car.  Mercedes struggled for pace in the hot temperatures throughout the weekend in Bahrain and was unable to challenge Ferrari in qualifying as the Scuderia locked out the front-row of the Sakhir grid.  But a fast start enabled Bottas to jump Kimi Raikkonen on the run to Turn 1, while an alternative strategy from Mercedes allowed the Finn to close in on race-leader Vettel in the final stages of Sunday’s race.  Bottas ultimately finished just 0.6s behind Vettel on the run to the line, having been unable to find a way past the German...
Full Story »
7y ago from Crash.net 0
Share

You May Also Be Interested In...

Bahrain Grand Prix top three press conference

< ► > Full transcript from the top three press conference...
7y ago from GrandPrix247.com

Race Results – 2018 Bahrain GP

Bahrain Grand Prix – Here are the complete results from the 2018...
7y ago from FormulaSpy.com

Bahrain Grand Prix Qualifying Press Conference

Full transcript from the top three press conference after qualifying for...
7y ago from GrandPrix247.com

Vettel beats Merc in Bahrain stunner

Sebastian Vettel has claimed his second successive win at the start of...
7y ago from SkySports.com

Elsewhere On The Network

Popular On MGPToday.com

Massimo Rivola: Aprilia has become the ‘benchmark’...

Massimo Rivola has admitted that Aprilia has become the current reference...
20h ago from MotorsportWeek.c...

Popular On IndyCarToday.com

Popular On TotalWRC.com

Kalle Rovanpera returns to WRC with Subaru

Double WRC Champion Kalle Rovanpera is set to return to the WRC next year...

Popular On GunnersToday.com

'You just cannot put your hands on a referee' - Former...

Former PL referee Mark Halsey has criticized Arsenal star Gabriel...
10h ago from SportsKeeda.com

Former Arsenal star explains what needs to happen for...

Former Arsenal star Tony Cascerino has weighed in on what should happen...
10h ago from SportsKeeda.com

Arteta’s ChatGPT Guardiola-ism is down but history...

quadruple dream may be dead but Arsenal are now just four games from...
11h ago from TheGuardian.com

Sporting vs Arsenal Prediction and Betting Tips |...

Sporting will entertain Arsenal at the Estádio José Alvalade in the...
11h ago from SportsKeeda.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.