Bojan Vrbnjak
Bottas is from the command desk of the team Mercedes received a message that a teammate was fast approaching him and should Hamilton does not hold. When they were together, however, Bottas seemed to hold Hamilton back for half a lap.
All Hamilton after the race he saw no problem in that. “Honestly, I didn’t know the yarn was a notice, so I thought we were racing against each other and that’s perfectly fine for me, especially at such an early part of the season. So I just thought I was getting closer to him and hoping to overtake him, ” said the seven - time world champion on FIA press conference.
“But obviously we were on different strategies, so I caught it quickly and then overtook it as I had fresher tires. Sometimes we are in a situation where you just have to put the team first. Second and third place is good, but if you can get first place and the most points, that's the key to everything,”He concluded Hamilton.
Bottas: I was busy with my race, I’m not here to let people go
Valtteri Bottas showed an unexpected side in Barcelona when he Mercedes over the radio gave a team order to let go of himself Lewis Hamilton, but Bottas did not. This side, which is with Finc, who usually does what the team demands of him, we don’t see very often. But he didn’t see it coming yesterday, so he fought for his place. “I could have dropped it sooner, but I was driving my race,”Is Bottas told colleagues from Sky Sports F1.
Finn continues: “You have to consider everything and I tried to get Charles Leclerc out of my box stop window so he could go get fresh tires for an extra point. Because of this, I was mainly concerned with my race. There was a lot of discussion about that. They just said I shouldn’t hold him back, but like I said, I was working on my race and I’m not here to let people go. I'm here to race,Concluded the racer Mercedesa.
