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Bottas could use a week's rest: ''Once again the title slips through my fingers''

17 August 2020 at 10:15
Last update 17 August 2020 at 12:23
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Valtteri Bottas again had to settle for a third-place and see his teammate Lewis Hamilton running further and further ahead in the championship. The Finn wanted to compete this year but seems to be short again.

Bottas sits very well every Saturday. The Mercedes driver makes it very difficult for Hamilton in qualifying, but on Sunday he keeps falling short. ''My start just wasn't good and in the front row you get punished immediately without a tow," said Bottas according to Motorsport.com.

Again no title for Bottas

"I have no idea what the hole in points is, but it's just way too much. I see the championship slipping through my fingers again and I really have to see where it's going wrong. Every race I can find the pace, but it's in the details. I don't know the exact reason at the moment,'' Bottas explained, pointing out his bad luck at Silverstone.

''Outside the first race it's just not going to happen. It's disappointing, because there hasn't been a weekend in which things are going smoothly'', Bottas concludes disappointed.