Valtteri Bottas believes his Mexican GP could have been a “different story” had taken softs for the final stint F1
Bottas, who on Wednesday was announced for the, said his race proved to be “difficult, especially the second stint with the hard tyre” as he experienced similar struggles to other drivers who also ran hards for the second half of the race.
"I just couldn’t get the tyre to work, especially the front axle,” Bottas explained. “It was below the working range all the time. “I think if I could do the race again I would for sure go for the soft tyre [in the final stint]. There were some cars that were really flying on the soft tyre.”Fernando Alonso, Alpine A522, leads Lando Norris, McLaren MCL36, and Valtteri Bottas, Alfa Romeo C42Bottas explained that he tried the hard tyre in FP1 and that it had felt “half decent”, although he admitted it was “easy to say afterwards” he had taken the wrong decision on which tyre to use.
But he took some comfort from scoring the point on a day when Aston Martin failed to make any further inroads onAston Martin’s recent surge of form had seen the gap fall to just three points ahead of Mexico, only for Bottas’s result to give Alfa Romeo a bit of extra breathing room with two races to go this year.“At least it’s one point. I think it’s been 10 races since I last scored points. So that’s something, and at least we scored more than Aston.
Asked if Alfa Romeo’s pace in Mexico was thanks to its late-season upgrades or simply more track-specific, Bottas expressed his optimism about keeping the form going.“We were in Q3 in Austin and should have been in the points, so I hope it’s going to be like this for the last two races. I see no reason why we shouldn’t be there."
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