Valtteri Bottas has confirmed team boss Toto Wolff’s suspicion that the Finn is not in top form after losing another world championship to Lewis Hamilton. Bottas said he had to avoid the press and social media all last week as the world of F1 wondered if Wolff will seize the moment and put George Russell in his car for 2021. Wolff speculated that Bottas underperformed in Bahrain after losing the title to Hamilton. “In moments like this, you do feel like you are not at your 100 percent level for different reasons,” Bottas confirmed to Ilta Sanomat newspaper. But losing the world championship to him for the fourth time is hard to accept.

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