Botas enjoys winning Mercedes with his Alfa Romeo

Just two months ago, Valteri Botas looked like the ‘lost’ driver of the season in Formula 1, having been forced to cede his place in the protagonist Mercedes F1 team to George Russell and switched to the clearly inferior – until last year – Alfa Romeo .

Then the championship started and everything changed! Mercedes is struggling to set the car up, unlike Alfa Romeo, who are much faster than last year.

So Botas qualified in Bahrain and was 6th and last weekend in Saudi Arabia he qualified 8th and finished 6th before leaving with an engine temperature issue.

The best for the Finn? In the first race he started alongside former Mercedes teammate Lewis Hamilton, while in Jeddah he had 8 cars ahead of him on the starting line! No, tell me how would you feel if you were him?

“Well yeah I’m definitely happy with the decision I made and I’m happy in general so yeah I’m enjoying it.‘ were his words when asked if his decision to choose Alfa Romeo as his next team was the right one.

““I think that was the best scenario for our first season that I could ever imagine based on the information I had.”he had previously explained on Motorsport.com.

And he added: “If we can keep improving the car then we can undoubtedly keep fighting for Q3 and the top 10 places and that’s a good thing“.

In fact, Botas doesn’t hesitate to say his team can aim to beat Mercedes and become the third best team on the grid after Ferrari and Red Bull: “I think that should be the goal now‘ said the Finn emphatically.

We would like to know how Hamilton reacts to his former teammate’s statements. The Brit wanted as much as he could this year to get revenge but in the end he’s found himself in a very difficult position to contend with a car that’s uncompetitive – at least for now – and as a sensitive character he is also will certainly not be in the best possible psychology.