News Details

Bottas still confident in his chances for French GP win

Valtteri Bottas thinks that he can recover from missing out on pole position for the French Grand Prix to Mercedes AMG Motorsport team-mate Lewis Hamilton. Bottas was the fastest man in Free Practices 2 and 3 at Circuit Paul Ricard, and was less than six hundredths of a second adrift of Hamilton's pace setting time in Friday morning's first practice session. But the Finn could not collate a strong enough lap in qualifying to prevent Hamilton from taking his 86th Formula 1 career pole and ended up 0.286 seconds slower than the five-time world champion. Bottas said that the chicane combination of Turns 8 and 9 that splits the Mistral straight caused him the most problems in Qualifying 3, and...
Full Story »
Share

You May Also Be Interested In...

Bottas heads Mercedes 1-2 in France Practice 2

now viewing Bottas heads Mercedes 1-2 in France Practice 2 Jun 21, 2019...
6y ago from F1Hub.net

Bottas quickest, Hamilton under investigation –...

French Grand Prix – Valtteri Bottas led a Mercedes one-two in...
6y ago from FormulaSpy.com

Valtteri Bottas: ‘No massive things’ to explain...

Valtteri Bottas has stressed that there are “no massive...
6y ago from MotorsportWeek.com

VIDEO: Hamilton's record-breaking French GP pole lap

Lewis Hamilton took the 86th pole position of his career ahead of the 2019...
6y ago from GPFans.com

Elsewhere On The Network

Popular On MGPToday.com

Why MotoGP hails 2025 season as a...

MotoGP promoter Dorna Sports has described the conclusion of the 2025...

Popular On IndyCarToday.com

Popular On TotalWRC.com

Gregoire Munster confirmed for WRC Monte Carlo in...

The season opener marks a return to the event where Munster claimed his...

Romet Jürgenson to compete in opening three WRC2...

The rising Estonian talent is joined by co-driver Siim Oja and start...

Popular On GunnersToday.com

Chelsea plan to steal ‘pretty special' playmaker...

Chelsea are interested in signing the Genk midfielder Konstantinos...
8h ago from CaughtOffside.com

'What a massive player he is for us' - Mikel Arteta...

Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta was full of praise for Declan Rice after...
14h ago from SportsKeeda.com

'That's true, yes': Transfer expert confirms Arsenal...

Arsenal are reportedly interested in signing the Borussia Dortmund...
16h ago from CaughtOffside.com

Contact made: Berta leading talks as Arsenal prepare...

Arsenal are looking to improve the midfield unit with the signing of...
16h 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.