For the second race in a row, Valtteri Bottas scored points for the Alfa Romeo team by finishing 9th in the Sao Paulo Grand Prix. The result could have been better, as Valtteri finished fifth in some stages of the race, but he was unlucky, the safety car appeared on track at an unlucky moment for him, after which the Finn couldn’t stop the rivals who were driving fresher. to resist. ties.
Nevertheless, Valtteri finished in the top ten again, but also many noticed that he managed to help Guanyu Zhou, his Chinese partner, during the weekend, but this was not on Sunday, but even the day before, during the sprint.
At one point in Saturday’s short race, Bottas was behind his teammate and saw that he couldn’t get ahead of Nicolas Latifi’s Williams. Valtteri looked at what was happening on the track, then he advised on the radio: “Tell Zhou to attack Latifi at Turn 10 – Nicholas slows down there early at the entrance.”
However, Guanyu did not follow the advice, acted in his own way and was ahead of Williams at start-finish. But Bottas himself was ahead of Latifi in Turn 10 on the next lap.
One of the fans, commenting on this episode on social networks, fairly commented: “Bottas is the best partner Zhou could get alone.”
One stage before the end of the season, Valtteri is 10th in the championship with 49 points. Guanyu Zhou is on the 18th line of the individual standings with 6 points. At the same time, the Alfa Romeo team competes with Aston Martin for 6th place in the Constructors’ Championship.
Source: F1 News
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