Calmer Bottas Clarifies Post-Race Statements

Earlier it had been reported that Mercedes driver Valtteri Bottas was mad at being called a ‘wingman’. The comments had been suggested by interviewers with the Mercedes team. Now, the Finn has issued a clarification to his own initial response.

He said on Twitter, “I have not called a meeting with the bosses for Toto saying I was the perfect wingman in this race. There is no need to. I was disappointed with my end result in the race and saw everything in a negative way for a moment. I know what he meant.”

Furthermore he also said, “And he would have said the same about Lewis if he’d be in same situation and had a similar race. We are on equal terms and I trust the team 100% on that. All good. We’ll keep pushing! It’ll come.”

In other words, the earlier response by the 28-year old can be classified as a ‘spur of the moment’ comment. He has insisted that the two driver are still free to race each other and no team orders have come into play.

Here are the Finn’s tweets on the same: