Valtteri Botta💧s has described asও 2020 F1 campaign as ‘pretty bad’ thus far after the promise of his opening round victory in Austria was extinguished by a run of lacklustre results relative to runaway title leading team-mate Lewis Hamilton.

Just as he did in 2019, the Finn began the season with a bang by winning out꧒ of the box at the R𝔍ed Bull Ring, raising hopes of a potential title battle with his six-time F1 title winning team-mate Hamilton.

However, since then Bottas has struggled to match the Briton in race trim and has been hampered by niggling issues,💦 not least the late🌼 race blowout at Silverstone that dropped him outside of the points.

Though it is still relatively early days six rounds into a season tha🌼t is expected to exceed the 13 rounds currently c🐭onfirmed, Bottas is already 43 points shy of Hamilton in the standings, while a strong run of form from Red Bull’s Max Verstappen has also seen him leapfrog him into second overall.

Indeed, Bottas has a relatively damning assessment of his season so far, bran𓆏ding it ‘pretty bad’ from round two onwards.

“Apart from the first race, it’s been pretty bad. There’s n⭕ot been a weekend that has gone smoothly and without issues or so on apart from the first one. So a pretty bad season so far.

“Obviously, that’s disappointing so it’s nice to have a break. Hopefully we still have many moꦺre races to go, maybe even up to 10 or something like this. I would ho🦩pe so. It’s far from ideal.