Bottas was entertaining in FP2 today, tried to take out McLaren's pit-wall staff.
That earned him a 3 place drop on the grid and a couple of points on his licence.
Yea that was pretty crazy looking, it was interesting hearing mclaren on FIA radio telling the race director how pissed off they were over it, clearly they were but it’s also an opportunity since they probably believe with the strength of their car and weakness of Bottas form wise, if they can get ahead of him they will likely finish ahead
Bottas is decent enough when he's ahead but he has no WtW racecraft and can't overtake anyone unless there's a massive speed differential.
I'm not entirely a fan of ol' Hammy (though I respect him as athlete), but comments like that are just on another level.
I don't understand it.
I'm happy seeing Max giving him a bit of a run though. Can't say I'm a huge fan of him either...but again, still respectful.
Yea that’s exactly my thoughts also, and while Redbull were going from one under pressure young journeyman to another in the second Redbull seat and Mercedes still had a significant aero and engine advantage Bottas could afford to phone it in and still look semi decent. But Perez is actually a quite capable, consistent and talented driver, in my view on par with a Button or a Rosberg, and Valteri needs to begin to earn his salary or George Russell becomes the natural choice.
