Valtteri Bottas sa🃏ys he knows where he went wrong with the setup on his Mercedes Formula 1 car for second practice on Friday in Mexico after dropping from first to sixth on the timesheets, with the Finn taking confidence from his early pace.

Bottas finished four-tenths of a second clear of the pack in FP1, heading up a Mercedes one-two, but dropped back to sixth in second practice as Red Bull ꦛand Ferrari both turned up the wi꧑ck.

Despite 🌜appearing to struggle for pace, Bottas admitted after the session he had taken a wrong turn with his setup, giving him confidence in how to turn the situation around.

"First practice was good, I really enjoyed it. It is such a 🐽fun circuit to drive because it has quite a low grip, so it is definitely challenging," Bott🧸as said.

"We made some set-up change❀s for FP2 which went in the wrong direction. So in the end of theꩲ session we went back to the original setup.

"For some reason I also struggled to get the tyres to work in the second session. That's why it di�🐼�dn't look as good as the first one.

"But ♌I think it was a positive day overall, I'm looking forward to qualifying."