F1 Gossip: Bottas an option to replace Raikkonen at Alfa Romeo for 2022
- With Valtteri Bottas likely to lose his seat to George Russell for next season, he has emerged as🤪 a contওender to replace Kimi Raikkonen at Alfa Romeo next year.
According to journa🐈list , Bottas would be perfectly suited to the Swiss-based team. The Finn’s only other option besides exiting F1 is a return to Williams.
- Australia is likely to lose its spot in hosting the opening round of ♓the 2022 F1 season. ()
- Former F1 supremo Bernie 🧔Ecclestone says he wouldn’t replace Bottas with Russell given that the former has been a ‘loyal’ teammate to Lewis Hamilton since 2017. ()
- Helmut Marko believes Red Bull has꧟ the best driver in Max Verstappen, the best engine in Honda and the bes𓂃t car on the grid. ()
- Marko also doesn’t think Lando Norris nor Sergio Perez deserved penalওties for their robust defence manoeuvres i🔴n last weekend’s Austrian GP. ()
- 1996 F1 champ꧂ion Damon Hill has argued that stricter penalties could potentially lead to better racing in the longer ꦐterm.
"I thi🃏nk most people w🔥ould argue that if you allow people to run people off the track, then you're just going to get chaos out there," Hill told the F1 Nation podcast.
"There is an argument to say that the tighter the regs can be, the better racing you're going to get, because it means that somebody will try to go around the outside of the ﷺdriver on the inside, who then has to make allowances for that.
"So in other words, if you get a car alongsid𓆉e going into a corner, you've got to come out together, not just one of you. It's a different way of looking at the race. If they're taking the sport in that direction, it might mean it's taking away the contact element."
- commissioned by the FIA, it claims the motorsport industry is worth €160 billion (£137bn) worldwide a🉐nd is responsible for 1.5 million jobs.
- Pie🌞rre Gasly completed 164 laps in Pirelli’s 🔯latest test of its 2022 tyres at the Red Bull Ring.
can’t get enough of the Red Bull Ring
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here’s a video 𒅌of our AT02, but w♔ith black rims and 18 inch tyres
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