Just a bad weekend, I’m not going to let I affect me.

There is no point in me talking any hit in the confidence or anything that I’m doing. Just one bad race and if you end up on the podium with a bad race you are still ok. When asked if this race, then, had been a blow in his aspirations he said: “ made this weekend one of those inconsistent weekends that you try to avoid, but it has happened, so what can I do? Learn from this, move on. Ahead of the season Bottas had highlighted the need for him to be ultra-consistent in order to have a chance of beating Hamilton to the title. I think it was worth a gamble - I think it really gave me that difference in tyre life, that didn’t quite pay off today.”īottas had come into the race in Hungary six points clear of Hamilton at the top of the drivers’ standings. “It was close with Max but we needed one more lap.

“I was fighting to the end,” said Bottas. Bottas roared back, latching onto Verstappen’s tail with two laps to go, but in the end ran out of laps to launch a serious attack. But with his tyres past their best, Mercedes rolled the dice, bringing Bottas in for hard tyres with 20 laps to go. Having battled his way back up the order, Bottas closed to around a second of Verstappen in second place. I will make sure nothing is changing in the dash anymore at a crucial moment, because we don’t want any distraction like that in a sensitive moment.” “It was an odd situation and I’m sure we’re going to review the onboard and what exactly happened. I thought the lights went off, and anyway I was kind of half seeing the start lights because of the halo and the position I was in. “So that’s all that was needed for me to react. “I believe it was the main page of the dash changed a different colour or something - a really bright colour. READ MORE: Hamilton romps to eighth Hungarian Grand Prix win, as Verstappen recovers to secondĮxpanding on what had happened in the post-race press conference, Bottas added: I don’t know what it was, so something changed on my dash and I reacted to that instead of the start light and I had to do the start again and lost it there.” I reacted to a light on my dash that went off. “Obviously starting second I aimed to win the race, but lost it at the start. “It was pretty bad race to be honest for me,” he said.

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