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Bottas: It’s “ironic” that Sauber F1 enchancment has come so late
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Bottas: It’s “ironic” that Sauber F1 enchancment has come so late

By Miles Cooper December 1, 2024
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Valtteri Bottas has hailed the impact of his Sauber crew’s newest upgrades on automobile efficiency after qualifying thirteenth for the Qatar Grand Prix and ending twelfth within the dash occasion – however acknowledged the advance has come fairly late for him.

Bottas is out of an F1 race drive subsequent 12 months since all the opposite seats are crammed, and he and Zhou Guanyu are to get replaced by Nico Hulkenberg and present F2 frontrunner Gabriel Bortoleto subsequent season.“It’s extremely late within the season and we have been ready for these enhancements for an extended, very long time,” he mentioned.

“So it is form of ironic [sic], however it’s what it’s. However a minimum of we are able to now attempt to do one thing and simply have to take advantage of out of it.

“It was fairly a wierd qualifying really, each run was totally different. Steadiness was a bit a bit all over the place, which was not the case yesterday. So we solely made minor modifications.

“I do not know what was occurring, however nonetheless I used to be aiming to be in prime 10, however I believe we have got to be blissful as a crew.”

The embattled Sauber crew, now majority-owned by Audi forward of a rebranding in 2024 and an additional funding from the Qatar Funding Authority, is adrift on the backside of the constructors’ standings having scored no factors by any means this season.

Bottas: It’s “ironic” that Sauber F1 enchancment has come so late

Valtteri Bottas, KICK Sauber

Picture by: Andy Hone / Motorsport Photographs

Throughout qualifying for grands prix, Bottas has solely progressed from Q3 9 instances this season, a 3rd of them for the reason that crew utilized a serious replace package deal for the US Grand Prix. He has made it by to Q1 as soon as, in China, the place he began tenth however retired with an engine failure. That weekend, the place each Sauber drivers received by to Q3 for the dash race, stays an outlier when it comes to qualifying efficiency. Bottas’s highest end has been thirteenth.

After the US GP Sauber launched one other vital replace in Las Vegas which is able to type the idea for subsequent 12 months’s automobile. A brand new underfloor geometry, allied to revisions across the entrance ‘fences’, flooring edges and diffuser, is claimed to have improved stability underneath braking in addition to enhancing general downforce.

Within the FIA documentation by which groups should declare automobile modifications Sauber listed a brand new entrance wing profile this weekend, however that is merely a revision of an present design and the alterations are claimed to focus on a wider steadiness vary.

“It’s similar to a trim,” Bottas confirmed. “I believe it is nonetheless purely the diffuser. The ground we had in Vegas is making the distinction.

“That simply made a step and, on this monitor, it simply appears to assist. It is simply all-round downforce, a bit extra consistency. Because the grid is tight, all the pieces helps.

“I believe in principle, it was [an improvement of] three tenths [of a second per lap], which is respectable in a decent discipline.”

Images from Qatar GP Dash Race & Qualifying

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