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Bottas bemoans luck as Lawson accepts blame for Qatar conflict
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Bottas bemoans luck as Lawson accepts blame for Qatar conflict

By Miles Cooper December 3, 2024
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Liam Lawson has accepted blame for working Valtteri Bottas off the observe and costing the Sauber driver a shot at his first factors of the Formulation 1 season through the Qatar Grand Prix.

Bottas, who will go away Sauber on the finish of the yr, has but to safe a top-10 end this season however a ground improve forward of the Las Vegas Grand Prix has made the crew extra aggressive within the closing levels of 2024.

Group-mate Zhou Guanyu, who may also depart the squad at season’s finish, completed eighth in Qatar to seal Sauber’s first factors of a dismal marketing campaign, with Bottas solely in a position to get better to eleventh after a first-corner spin for Lawson following the primary security automobile restart on lap 5 pushed the Finn vast.

“It was simply my dangerous. I assumed we had actually good [tyre] temperature to be sincere,” RB driver Lawson conceded, revealing he had apologised to Bottas for the error.

“I labored lots on the tyres on the restart on the security automobile, went for a transfer and half method across the nook realised…principally, I used to be sliding up the observe in the direction of him and at that time, I simply tried to get out of it actually as a result of I used to be about to hit him.

“So I attempted to test up, I spun the automobile. I do not know if we touched, I suppose we did, however that was on me.

“It was my fault. Clearly, he did nothing flawed. I did not anticipate him to remain on the market to be sincere, and since he did clearly I used to be sliding up the observe, but it surely was my fault.”

Bottas bemoans luck as Lawson accepts blame for Qatar conflict

Valtteri Bottas, KICK Sauber C44

Picture by: Steven Tee / Motorsport Photos

Bottas is the one driver to have raced in all 23 races to date this season and failed to attain some extent.

He can be hoping the latest enhancements to the Sauber will permit him to deal with that within the closing spherical in Abu Dhabi this weekend as he bemoaned his luck.

“I believe the whole lot simply went towards me – effectively, for the reason that Lawson incident,” mentioned Bottas.

“He spun after which I misplaced the observe place. We determined earlier than the race, whoever is forward, we’ll get the optimum technique and the opposite one, a assist technique. That was it.

“Additionally the timing of the security automobile was the worst for me, attainable. So it is a disgrace as a result of even like a very dangerous race now, I used to be eleventh! So a half-decent race ought to have gotten factors.

“However clearly I am completely satisfied for Zhou and for the crew to no less than get a few factors.

“Everybody deserves no less than these couple of factors. No person needs to be that crew who would not rating, so no less than that curse is off. However like I mentioned, I’ve nonetheless acquired zero factors, which isn’t nice. In order that’s the principle feeling now.

“So, yeah, I’ve one race left for now and hopefully in Abu Dhabi we’re going to struggle as effectively. However yeah, simply general, I believe this race for me sort of sums up the season, simply did not work.”

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