Valtteri Bottas will need a victory on Sunday in the US Grand Prix and will require Lewis Hamilton to fail to score a point, if the Finn is to have any hope of extending the title fight to Brazil.
Valtteri Bottas will need a victory on Sunday in the US Grand Prix and will require Lewis Hamilton to fail to score a point, if the Finn is to have any hope of extending the title fight to Brazil.
Mercedes’ Valtteri Bottas snatched pole position for the U.S. Grand Prix on Saturday, breathing life into his remote title hopes while signalling to Lewis Hamilton he will not be gifting a sixth drivers’ crown to his team mate.
Nobody has won in Texas without qualifying on the front row and hard work lies ahead for Bottas, who will need nothing less than a victory on Sunday and for Hamilton to fail to score a point if the Finn is to have any hope of extending the title fight to Brazil.
“From what I know of him (Hamilton), he is going to be fighting hard that’s for sure,” said Bottas, after clinching his fifth pole of the season with a time of one minute, 32.029 seconds on the bumpy Circuit of the Americas. “He always hates to lose, he always likes to win like all of us.
“Obviously the championship, with the big margin, he doesn’t need many points.
Mercedes’ Valtteri Bottas snatched pole position for the U.S. Grand Prix on Saturday, breathing life into his remote title hopes while signalling to Lewis Hamilton he will not be gifting a sixth drivers’ crown to his team mate.
Nobody has won in Texas without qualifying on the front row and hard work lies ahead for Bottas, who will need nothing less than a victory on Sunday and for Hamilton to fail to score a point if the Finn is to have any hope of extending the title fight to Brazil.
“From what I know of him (Hamilton), he is going to be fighting hard that’s for sure,” said Bottas, after clinching his fifth pole of the season with a time of one minute, 32.029 seconds on the bumpy Circuit of the Americas. “He always hates to lose, he always likes to win like all of us.
“Obviously the championship, with the big margin, he doesn’t need many points.