Valtteri Bottas has had a successful move to Alfa Romeo. While he seemed to be taking a step backwards with his departure from Mercedes, this season he is able to compete with his old team for the time being. The Finn is therefore looking ahead to the coming months with great confidence.
Valtteri Bottas has had a successful move to Alfa Romeo. While he seemed to be taking a step backwards with his departure from Mercedes, this season he is able to compete with his former team for the time being. The Finn is therefore looking ahead to the coming months with great confidence.
"We can be satisfied with our first part of the season," assessed Bottas, who thanked his team for the early stage of the year. "I have my role and I can drive the way I want. The environment at Alfa Romeo stimulates me, because I see people who give everything. That is really an inspiration."
Alfa Romeo is therefore performing above expectations, but if it were up to Bottas, the team is far from reaching its ceiling. The experienced driver, together with Guanyu Zhou, wants to get more out of his car and is confident that Alfa Romeo can slowly grow towards the top of the intermediate pack.
For now, however, Bottas is doing much better than Zhou. After six Grands Prix, the Chinese driver still has only one point, while Bottas already has forty. Lewis Hamilton's former teammate is almost solely responsible for Alfa Romeo's fifth place in the Constructors' Championship.