Bottas surprised: 'Maybe Lando can tell me later'
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Valtteri Bottas finished ahead of Lewis Hamilton at the Austrian Grand Prix. His teammate suffered car problems throughout the race, forcing Bottas to move ahead and eventually lost a podium position.
Because of his second-place, Bottas was sitting together with Max Verstappen and Lando Norris at the press conference. The Finnish driver commented that in the race it was almost impossible to drive towards the Dutchman. However, he had counted on that beforehand. "Red Bull’s pace, no surprise. We saw last week that they were fast and of course, we expected them to be fast again, no doubt."
McLaren also struck a positive note with Bottas. "They were definitely putting some pressure to us in the end and it was quite surprising considering there was quite a few tenths of pace difference last week. So, I don’t know, maybe Lando can tell me later what they found from the week before and then we can improve."
Norris right behind Pérez in world championship
Norris made up a lot of ground in the world championship. Where he was still 10 points behind Sergio Pérez prior to the race, he reduced this to 3 points in Austria. Bottas is just behind Norris.