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Why Bottas isn’t letting the “worst-case state of affairs” finish his F1 profession
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Why Bottas isn’t letting the “worst-case state of affairs” finish his F1 profession

By Miles Cooper December 24, 2024
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Valtteri Bottas could also be enthusiastic about ‘what’s subsequent’ for him in Formulation 1, however there is no such thing as a hiding the frustration about how a ‘worst-case state of affairs’ left him on the sidelines.

Having had excessive hopes about what a transfer to Alfa/Romeo Sauber in 2022 – then underneath the management of Fred Vasseur – may convey him, Bottas was in the end denied the progress he hoped for by a change on the high, and this season was his first in F1 the place he failed to attain a degree.

Having been missed for a seat at Hinwil for 2025 in favour of Gabriel Bortoleto, and no choices elsewhere, Bottas is returning to Mercedes as a reserve driver – hoping that he can discover his approach again into race motion for 2026.

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The Finn has stored a courageous face on the challenges of this season – the place highlights have been his extracurricular actions greater than on-track performances.

However for somebody as aggressive as he’s, Bottas’ struggles have admittedly not been simple to deal with.

Chatting with Motorsport.com, Bottas mentioned: “It is laborious, for positive, as a result of I wish to present what I can do and shine and have my moments, however it’s troublesome on the again. Folks simply will not see and virtually folks overlook what you’ll be able to obtain.

“So I simply suppose it is for me, it is only a bit unfortunate that I’ve obtained into this example, which ended up being the worst-case state of affairs. It meant I used to be left with out the seat for subsequent yr.

“If I may return three years, I most likely would have chosen one other workforce to enter, primarily based on what the state of affairs is now.

“However you simply cannot predict the longer term, as a result of within the first yr, after I signed up with Fred for 3 years, there was a transparent plan and clear objectives.

“The primary yr was, I feel, nice general. However then when Fred left, issues sort of collapsed a bit, together with the objectives and the targets.”

Why Bottas isn’t letting the “worst-case state of affairs” finish his F1 profession

Valtteri Bottas, KICK Sauber

Photograph by: Andy Hone / Motorsport Photos

Bottas definitely couldn’t have predicted how issues would go south this yr, as Sauber dropped to the again of the sphere and ended up tenth within the constructors’ championship.

It was solely Zhou Guanyu’s eighth-place end in Qatar that prevented the workforce from ending 2024 with none factors on the board in any respect.

A part of the reason for the drop in competitiveness is that the squad targeted an excessive amount of on its Audi plans from 2026, so uncared for the current.

However Bottas thinks that issues have additionally not been helped by the influence of a rotating door of administration with Vasseur, then Andreas Seidl, and most lately Mattia Binotto.

“There has not been sufficient stability when it comes to the management,” he mentioned. “We’ve now our third new chief inside three years, and with every of the modifications to the highest, it has additionally meant that many key folks have modified within the roles.

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“There’s been folks leaving and other people coming, in order that naturally takes time. I do not suppose we have simply had the stable basis to construct on.

“It has been like we construct one thing, after which it falls down, after which we strive once more. So I feel that is the principle factor, simply lack of stability general.”

And Bottas has no doubts that if there may be one factor a high workforce like Mercedes had throughout his time there, it was stability.

“After I was at Mercedes, that was an enormous power,” he mentioned. “Everybody had lengthy, lengthy contracts. There was all the time stability.

“So you could possibly simply actually give attention to the work, and never spend time looking for new folks or kicking folks out. So I feel that appears to be the case in lots of high groups.”

Completely happy life off observe
Valtteri Bottas, KICK Sauber

Valtteri Bottas, KICK Sauber

Photograph by: Andy Hone / Motorsport Photos

Whereas issues haven’t been nice for Bottas on observe, there’s a sure irony to the truth that he appears to be happier than ever off it.

His antics are nicely preferred on social media, he has challenged himself in ways in which he by no means thought he may earlier than, and he’s revelling in all of it.

“I have never had, sadly, that a lot enjoyable when it comes to combating for outcomes I would like on observe,” he mentioned. “So on observe undoubtedly has been very difficult.

“However I have been attempting to compensate that with my off-track life; doing different stuff, as a result of I want the fun from someplace.

“I wish to meet my targets in one thing. Let’s give an instance, the gravel world championships. I wished to qualify for that, and I wished to compete. I set it as a objective, and I achieved it, and I completed it in kind of within the midfield, and I used to be really actually joyful about it.

“So I feel all this stuff apart, I have been doing it as a result of I want that feeling of moving into my objectives and stuff like that. That is why I am general very, very joyful.”

One in every of his extra eye-opening off-track actions was when he determined to do an in-villa Ironman – a 2.4-mile swim in a small pool, 112-mile Peloton bike journey after which a 26.2-mile marathon on a treadmill.

Valtteri Bottas, Stake F1 Team Kick Sauber, cycles the track

Valtteri Bottas, Stake F1 Staff Kick Sauber, cycles the observe

Photograph by: Zak Mauger / Motorsport Photos

Talking about that feat, Bottas mentioned the concept had come to him the earlier evening over dinner.

“I used to be really having some wine after which I used to be like: ‘Tomorrow is an Ironman, a full one,’” he smiled. “So, yeah, 6am to the pool, and off we go!

“Midway via it, I used to be considering, what am I doing? Why have I executed it? However then I believed: ‘Okay, I am midway. There isn’t any approach of stopping now.’ So I needed to full it.

“I am glad I did it. It was really mentally, to undergo that, a fairly eye-opening expertise. , you’ve got actually obtained to dig deep and also you learn the way a lot it is simply actually the psychological energy. As a result of ultimately, when your physique is empty, you then’re simply going together with your willpower. And that is a fairly cool feeling whenever you full it.”

It’s this inner aggressive fireplace, the necessity to push himself, and a happiness in the whole lot round him, that in the end made him decided to not simply stroll away from F1 in any case he has been via this yr.

“That is why I additionally really feel like I am not executed with the game but, as a result of I really feel like I may go ceaselessly,” he admitted.

“I’ve obtained the whole lot in an ideal steadiness, and I do not actually really feel like I am getting fatigue due to F1. In order that’s why I really feel like I nonetheless have issues to offer for the game, no matter function it’s.”

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Valtteri Bottas

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