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When Valtteri Bottas Loses Mercedes F1 Seat, Blame Imola
Early crash, finish out of the points leaves Bottas title hopes all but dashed.
Valtteri Bottas has raced alongside Lewis Hamilton at Mercedes since 2017.
After finishing second in the Formula 1 championship each of the last two seasons, Bottas is just fifth in 2021 after two races.
George Russell has been the flavor of the month and the perceived future for Mercedes since leading 59 of 87 laps while substituting for Lewis Hamilton at Bahrain late last season.
Red Bull
While one of their drivers barely put a foot wrong, the other couldn’t seem to stay out of trouble. Verstappen jumped into the lead with a brilliant start and pretty much stayed there untroubled throughout the whole race to record a stunning victory. But Perez dropped back at the start, was penalised for overtaking behind the Safety Car, and spun off twice. After the highs of yesterday, it wasn’t the performance the Mexican would have been hoping for.
Max Verstappen, 1st I am of course very happy with this win for everyone in the Team and Honda. I think the key was of course the start as we had a great launch. I surprised myself as it was always hard to get off the line in the wet last year but we worked hard to try and improve that and it worked. The conditions were challenging out there, especially in the beginning and it was very hard to stay on track but we stayed out of trouble.
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And welcome to our coverage for Friday s two practice sessions for the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix at Imola. After a long wait to resume racing at the start of the 2021 season, we have had another long wait to arrive at Imola. Following the brilliant Bahrain Grand Prix, three weeks seems like an annoying amount of time until the second race of the year. But from here on in the races come thick and fast, assuming no Covid-related cancellations or postponements, that is.
In that first race, we were reminded of the enduring brilliance of
Lewis Hamilton, who held off a charging
Mercedes
That was a very solid Friday for the Silver Arrows, helped in part by reliability woes suffered by their rivals. Bottas finished on top in both sessions, despite failing to improve on the soft tyres in FP2. Hamilton was narrowly behind his team mate, but both look comfortable here, citing the balance of the W12 as being much improved since Bahrain. But can they convert this form to front row grid slots tomorrow?
Lewis Hamilton – FP1: 1:16.605, P2; FP2: 1:15.561, P2 The team worked very hard to understand what happened in the last race where we were weak and to see if we can try to tweak the car for a better set up. I also think the track has come a little bit more in our direction. We started off with a really good set up today, a few tweaks here and there but no major issues. So far, good pace from us this weekend.