Bottas positive about Verstappen and Red Bull dominance: 'Great job'

16 July 2023 at 14:22

Last update 16 July 2023 at 16:27

Toby McLuskie

Alfa Romeo driver Valtteri Bottas is having anything but a great season in Formula 1 so far. The Finnish driver has scored five points in motorsport's premier class this season. That is only one point more than teammate Guanyu Zhou. Bottas also sees the dominance of Red Bull and Max Verstappen. He calls it deserved and praises the team.

"I think they deserve it. They’ve done a great job with the car. They seem to have a really strong team overall," Bottas told PlanetF1 in an interview. "I don’t see a point of trying to limit someone’s performance. I think already, with the regulations nowadays, if you win the Constructors Championship’, you are already then penalised in terms of wind tunnel time," he continued.

Bottas and Hamilton disagree

"There are always periods when somebody’s dominating, and so on, so I wouldn’t change anything – it’s the name of the game. The people who build the best car deserve it," Bottas told reporters. Former teammate Lewis Hamilton saw it differently and would have liked to have seen measures against Red Bull Racing's dominance.

The former Mercedes driver was recently allowed to take delivery of a Mercedes car worth 2.5 million. The 33-year-old Finnish driver has now managed to amass a rather impressive fleet of cars.