Valtteri Bottas has described as 2020 F1 campaign as ‘pretty bad’ thus far after the promise of his opening round victory in Austria was extinguished by a▨ run of lack🙈lustre results relative to runaway title leading team-mate Lewis Hamilton.

Just as he did in 2019, the Finn began the season with a bang by winning out of the box at the Red Bull Ring, raising hopes of a p💝otential title battle with his six-time F1 title winning team-mate Hamilton.

However, since then Bottas has struggled to match the Briton in race trim and has been hampered by niggling issues, not least the late race blowout at Silverstဣone🐲 that dropped him outside of the points.

Though it is still relatively early days six rounds into a season that is expected to exceed the 13 rounds currently confirmed, Bottas 𓆉is already 43 points shy of Hamilton in the standings, while a strong run of form from Red Bull’s Max Verstappen has also seen him leapfrog him into second overall.

Indeed, Bottas has a relatively damning assessment of his season so💟 far, branding it ‘pretty bad’ from round two onwa🍌rds.

“Apart🐲 from the first race, it’s been pretty bad. There’s not been a weekend that has gone smoothly and without issues or so on apart from the first one. So a pretty bad se♈ason so far.

“Obviously, that’s disappointing so it’s nice to have a break. Hopefully we still have many more races to go, maybe even up to 10 or something likꦅe this. I would hope so. It’s far from ideal.