EXCLUSIVE: Valtteri Bottas hits out at doubters with ‘short memories’
Valtteri Bottas remai๊ns confident of securing a drive for the 2025 F1 season, deꦦspite his options running low.

168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Valtteri Bottas insists he is “not finished” with F1 as he continues his search for a seat on the 2025 grid, in an exclusive interview with wuqian0821.com's Lewis Larkam in Austria.
The Finn is one of several drivers out of contract next season and either he or teammate168澳洲5最新开奖结果: Zhou Guanyu will lose their drive after Sauber signed 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Nico Hulkenberg from Haas.
Despite seats quickly running out, Bottas remains confident about remaining on the F1 grid next year. Ahead of this weekend's Austrian Grand Prix, he told wuqian0821.com he believes he still has “three options”.
“Th🌳ere’s still opportunities,” he said. “I think there’s more than two at the moment, still. Probably three options. Here is one for sure.
“We are still talking in here. Just need a bit more time💝. There’s options, that’s a good thing, and I’ve got my priorit♛ies as well.”
Although he wouldn’t be drawn on💝 exactly which teams he was referring to, they are likely to be Williams and Alpine, as well as his current employers Sauber.
Bottas suggested that he is waiting on outgoing Ferrari driver168澳洲5最新开奖结果: Carlos Sainz to make a decision first, w🌳ith the Spaniard believed to have offers on the t🌱able from Williams, Alpine and Sauber.

Asked if he would be at peace with the prospect o𓂃f ending up without a drive for 2025, Bottas replied: “I’m not finished yet with the sport, that’s my feelꩲing.
“I definitely ⛎still have years to go and much to give for the sport and the team I will be with. That’s my feeling. I’m not ready for that.”
Statistically, Bottas is the most attractive free agent available on the driver market given he has the most victories anꦅd pole positions, yet the 34-year-old does not have a dr﷽ive secured.
“On the driver market with whose free at the moment, yeah for sure, that’s a fact,” ꦛhe said when those statistics were put to him. “So I hope that wil꧙l help me.
“People can have short memories in this sport, but the people who know, they know whaജt I can do and that’s the main thing that I need to trust - that okay that will sort me out.
“It’s always the sport, it’s not just pure performance. There’s other elements. Your nationality, if you have a sponsor package or not, these kind🐼 of things. It’s the name of the game. It’s not always fair.”
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