Since joining Mercedes in 2017, Bottas’s future has been decided on a year-by-year basis, and he admitted it has had an effect on him after missing out on this year’s title as team-mate Hamilton clinched a sixth championship at the United States Grand Prix.
“There was definitely uncertainty for 2020 at some point,” said Valtteri Bottas.
Valtteri Bottas: “When that continues, year after year, every single year of your career, at some point it’s getting a pain in the ass.”
Valtteri Bottas: “But, it’s going to be the same story next year.”
