F1 | Bottas: “Hard day, I suffered with the tyres”

Valtteri Bottas he will leave alone fourth: he was almost never able to be in line with his teammate's times and suffered greater difficulties precisely in the Q3, decisive qualifying session to assign the pole and determine the starting grid.

Il Finnish was not comfortable on the track and confirmed it in the post quali: “It was a hard day. In the end I couldn't get the tires to work well. We stopped to try a new set, did one more lap but couldn't find any grip. Initially, for some moments in qualifying, everything seemed to be going well, but we were always hanging by a thread when it came to tire temperature. With more pioggia I wasn't able to warm them up enough,” commented Bottas, explaining the reason for his performance.

The goal, obviously, is at least the podium. This is so that Bottas can still continue to be considered "fighting" for the title together with Hamilton e Vettel: “With the penalties from the Red Bulls I'm fourth, it's not bad. It's certainly positive to be ahead of both Ferraris. Tomorrow will be a very long race, fortunately it looks like it will be dry. We have the potential to get an important result and my plan will be to have a nice and clean race,” she concluded.