F1 | Retirement for Bottas: “A shame”

Also Valtteri Bottas forced to withdraw: the Finn, third in the standings, had to park his Mercedes on lap 39 due to an engine failure. Reached by the microphones of Sky Sports he commented on his 0 in the standings: "It's a shame, we had to refit the old engine in Mercedes and this was certainly a disappointment, we thought it could last but it didn't."

Then the Finn commented on the accident in turn 1 with Verstappen e Raikkonen: “I think it was a race indicator on my part, it's a shame what happened to the others too, I was on the inside, I was in my position to gain speed, in the end we touched and that's how it went”. Then a comment regarding the strange "2" Mercedes strategy which, to slow down Vettel and favor Hamilton, maintained Bottas out despite being one of the slowest cars on the track and then take him to make the pit stop only once he was overtaken by the German: "Our strategy was different to that of Hamilton, I went long in the first stint, something that could have paid off, but I should have gone on the podium and this didn't happen", he commented in a very politically correct manner.

Fabiola Granier