Lewis Hamilton has said he believes his team-mate, Valtteri Bottas, is a genuine contender for the Formula One world championship,
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Hamilton, speaking before the Spanish Grand Prix this weekend, said the form Bottas had shown came as no surprise while insisting their Mercedes team had no intention of favouring either driver in their battle for the title with Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel.
“Of course Bottas is a credible competitor,” the three-times world champion said when asked if he believed the Finn was in the running for the title.
http://www.chiefsofficialsauthentic.com/CHIEFS-ALEX-SMITH-JERSEY “He was when he joined. Many came with preconceived ideas of how he was going to perform and he has proved everybody wrong.”
Bottas’s victory was his first in F1 after he claimed his first pole position at the previous race in Bahrain. The 27-year-old achieved it with a calm, mature drive that included maintaining his lead in the closing stages while being chased down by the four-times world champion Vettel. The latter leads Hamilton in the drivers’ championship by 13 points with Bottas 10 points further back.
“Fair play to him, he is going to remain a competitor through the rest of the year so the fight will go on,” said Hamilton. There had been no discussion at Mercedes of one driver ceding to another. “I have not had the chat about backing off because there is no need to,” Hamilton said.
The British driver was fourth in Sochi after an uncharacteristically poor weekend in which he was unable to hook up his car successfully,
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“We have a good understanding of where we went wrong on our side of the garage. There has been a huge amount of analysis so we have definitely grown from the experience, both having a win and a fast car and a car that struggled in so many areas. I can’t say if it is going to be better this weekend. I assume it will be.”
Speaking before his home grand prix at the Circuit de Catalunya, Fernando Alonso issued his starkest warning yet that he may leave McLaren after his contract finishes at the end of this season.
http://www.authenticyankeeshop.com/authentic-andrew-miller-jersey.html The team endured two very difficult years after Honda were unable to supply a competitive power unit and 2017 was expected to be a major step forward; but the engine manufacturer is once again way off the pace. Alonso, who has yet to finish a race this season and in Russia did not even reach the grid due to an ERS problem, was unequivocal abouthis future.
“I am happy with the team but we are not winning,” he said. “If from here to September-October we are in a position where we see clearly a possibility to win in 2018, I will be more than happy to stay with the team. If it is not the case, then I will be more than happy to talk to anyone.”
The team have already taken the highly unusual step of allowing the Spaniard to miss the Monaco Grand Prix in order to race in the Indy 500, widely seen as part of the process of keeping their driver on board for the future.
But with the two-times world champion setting deadlines for later in the year, McLaren will require a huge step forward to prove they have anything close to a package that could win races in 2018. Alonso’s options are limited, however; realistically the only team with title-winning potential considered likely to take him on would be Renault, with whom he won his titles in 2005 and 2006.
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