Valtteri Bottas Accuses Teams of Playing Weird Testing Games

Valtteri Bottas says just the teams know how great their vehicles are as testing comes to a conclusion in Barcelona. It’s been a mixed bag in testing up until now, with none of the teams dominating. Mercedes F1 will at present be the top pick for Australia, however, Valtteri Bottas says the idea of the grid is obscure.

Mercedes caused a commotion in the primary week of testing with their DAS system, yet it hasn’t been since. There have likewise been promising lap times for Racing Point and Renault in week two. However, it is still unknown who is the best for a while yet.

Ferrari team principal Mattia Binotto has said more than once the group is trailing rivals Mercedes and Red Bull in the wake of making a quiet beginning to testing with its new SF1000 vehicle.

Sebastian Vettel managed to lift the team to the top of the timesheets on the penultimate day of pre-season testing. Yet at the same time trailed Bottas’ winter benchmark from the opening week by more than a second.

Inquired as to whether he trusted Binotto was feigning about Ferrari’s place in the grid, Bottas said the games between teams to conceal their actual performance were nothing unexpected.

Bottas is hoping Mercedes to be the best team on the grid as he pursues a first world title, subsequent to passing up a great opportunity last season to Lewis Hamilton.

Valtteri Bottas feels its a weird game

The Finn told media in Barcelona: “It’s a weird game in this sport sometimes with how much you’re showing, your speed in testing.

“Only the teams themselves know the true form they have. They can calculate and add up everything in terms of performance, what lap time they could do in theory. We can only guess what other teams are running. How much they have in their pocket.

“We’ve learned as a team that it’s important to keep focusing on our own work and own performance, doing our job. Eventually, the time will come that everyone will show their cards.”