News Details

Bottas admits Hamilton ‘better than me'

Mar.17 After five years alongside Lewis Hamilton at Mercedes, Valtteri Bottas has a frank admission. 'We had a meeting at the factory in December 2021,' the Finn, who lost his seat for 2022 and has relocated to Alfa Romeo, told the Swiss newspaper Blick. 'Everyone was there and I said it very loudly to everyone – ‘Lewis, you are better than me!'' It's a rare admission from a Formula 1 driver, but the 32-year-old has little problem admitting to coming up short against arguably the best driver in history. 'On good days I could beat Lewis, no problem,' said Bottas. 'But his base level was so high that he could just pull off the performances he needed. 'The next drivers who are...
Full Story »
Share

You May Also Be Interested In...

Bottas admits struggling with ‘dominant' Hamilton

Mar.16 Valtteri Bottas admits he struggled to compete with the...
4y ago from OneStopStrategy.com

‘Daniel Ricciardo is feeling unwell': McLaren...

Charles Leclerc ended the morning session of the first day of pre-season...
4y ago from Formula1News.co.uk

Horner: From 2010 to 2013, Hamilton very keen to drive...

Christian Horner revealed how Lewis Hamilton was very keen to join Red...
4y ago from GrandPrix247.com

#ReleaseTheFIAReport: Hamilton fans push for...

The Twitter campaign demanding that the FIA publicly reveal their...
4y ago from Formula1News.co.uk

Elsewhere On The Network

Popular On MGPToday.com

Popular On IndyCarToday.com

Second IndyCar practice at IMS headed up by Alex Palou

IndyCar took to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course for the...

IndyCar postpones IMS qualifying due to rain

The NTT IndyCar Series has postponed qualifying due to continuing...
14m ago from MotorsportWeek.c...

Palou secures early advantage in first IndyCar...

The NTT IndyCar Series completed its first official session of the Month...

Popular On TotalWRC.com

Popular On GunnersToday.com

The seven games that will decide whether Arsenal or...

enal have the advantage in the Premier League title race but will they...
54m ago from TheGuardian.com

Mikel Arteta urges Arsenal to ‘channel energy’ in...

ager dismisses criticism from the ‘celebration police’ and is focused...
54m ago from TheGuardian.com

Andrea Berta a huge admirer of 26-year-old Liverpool...

Arsenal are interested in signing the Atalanta midfielder Ederson Dos...
1h ago from CaughtOffside.com

Arsenal and Man City battle for 55m Spanish attacker...

Matias Fernandez-Pardo has been linked with a move away from LOSC Lille at...
1h ago from CaughtOffside.com

Comments

Hottest News

Recent News


2014 GPToday.com
GPToday.com is not responsible for the news headlines and associated descriptions and images it indexes, the content of externally linked sites or the comments & postings of its users.

This website is unofficial and is not associated in any way with the Formula One group of companies. F1, FORMULA ONE, FORMULA 1, FIA FORMULA ONE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP, GRAND PRIX and related marks are trade marks of Formula One Licensing B.V.