Marko Hanželic
Start in Barcelona was to be forgotten. Valtteri Bottas he believes he missed the win due to a poor first few hundred yards: "With a good start, victory would be possible, but I started really badly." After all, a bad start is a direct result of a mistake in qualifying in the twelfth turn. From the dirty side, the Finn came directly into crossfire Max Verstappen and Lance Stroll, who came third and fifth from the clean side.
"The overall effect was even worse, because if you start from the front row, the vehicles in the rear can take advantage of the wind." explanation Finn, which is now for the fourth time with clearly the best car of all, failed to be at least second.
“At first I tried to pull left to catch Lewis’ lee, but Max was already there. Then I tried to pull right to cover the inner lane, but one of the Racing Points was already there. Then I had the cars around me and in front of me right before the first turn. Suddenly I was in a sandwich. ”
Verstappen went past on the outside with late braking. Stroll he managed to brake almost at the same time as Bottas and then went through because he was on the inside. Critics will say Bottas he cooked it all himself. Nico Rosberg claims to have his Mercedes successor “Certain weaknesses”.
But why did the Finn start so badly? "I don't know, we have to look at it and analyze it," responds Bottas. “We will look at everything we can get to understand why this happened. Data, videos and all that. ”
