F1 Gossip: Bottas an option to replace Raikkonen at Alfa Romeo for 2022
- With Valtteri Bot﷽tas likely to lose his seat to George Russell for next season, he has emerged as a contender to replace Kimi Raikkonen at Alfa Romeo nexꦦt year.
According to journalist , Bottas would be perfectly suited to the Swiss-based team. The Finn’s only other option besides exiting F1 is a returඣn to Williams.
- Australia is likely to lose its spot in hosting𓄧 the opening round of the 2022🦋 F1 season. ()
- Former F1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone says he wouldn’t replace Bottas with Russell given that the former has been a ‘loyal’ teammate to Lewis Hami✃lton since 2017. ()
- Helmut Marko believes Red🐎 Bull has the best driver in M꧂ax Verstappen, the best engine in Honda and the best car on the grid. ()
- Marko also doesn’t think Lando Norris nor Sergio Perez deserved penalties for their robust defen🔯ce manoeuvres in last weekeꦺnd’s Austrian GP. ()
- 1996 F1 champion Damon Hill has argued th🧸at stricter penalties could potentially lead to better ra𒉰cing in the longer term.
"I think most peop๊le would argue that if you allow people to run people off the track, then💜 you're just going to get chaos out there," Hill told the F1 Nation podcast.
"There is an argument to s൲ay thatꦜ the tighter the regs can be, the better racing you're going to get, because it means that somebody will try to go around the outside of the driver on the inside, who then has to make allowances for that.
"So in other words, if you get a car alongside🌠 going into a corner, you've got to come out together, not just one of you. It's a different way of looking at the race. If they're taking the sport in that direct🔯ion, it might mean it's taking away the contact element."
- commissioned by the FIA, it claims the motorsport industry is worth €160 billion (£137bn) worldwide and is responsible for 1.5 😼million jobs.
- Pierre Gasly completed 164 laps iಞn Pirelli’s latest test of its 2022 tyres at the Red Bull Ring.
can’t get enough of the Red Bull Ring
— Scuderia AlphaTauri (@AlphaTauriF1)
here’s a video 𝓡of our AT02, but with black rims and 18 inch tyres
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