F1 | Alfa Romeo, Bottas forced to retire: "The points were out of reach anyway"

Valtteri Bottas' race ends a few laps from the end, but he is then forced to retire due to a technical problem. Starting from eighth position, the Finn lost some positions at the start, but slowly, after the pit stop, got closer to the points zone. Too bad for the technical problem with five laps to go, which forced him to retire. Definitely a negative ending for Alfa Romeo, which it was. finally managed to return to Q3 after some complicated weekends.

“This race, like the one in France, was also complicated, because the hard tires weren't as fast as I hoped. We tried, we thought it was the best option for us, but it didn't work out that way. We tried for a one-stop race, but it was difficult to recover – said the Finn – apart from that, a few laps from the end I had to stop due to a technical problem, it was a shame. I lost power, but I don't know the details yet: that's unfortunate, obviously, but we'll investigate with the team, but I still think it would have been difficult to score points. Now I'm enjoying the summer break, to recharge and come back full of energy for the second part of the seasonand ".