Valtteri Bottas has outlined he is enjoying the challenge of the new F1 cars despite the various complaints from his peers.<\/p>\n
The Finn asserted his primary emotion is being happy to be back in an F1 cockpit after a year on the sidelines in 2025.<\/p>\n
Bottas returned to the sport this year with newcomer Cadillac, having spent last year’s campaign as a reserve driver for Mercedes.<\/p>\n
His comeback to the sport coincided with a major F1 regulation change that has left many drivers unhappy due to the increase in energy management that is required.<\/p>\n
But Bottas has countered with his perspective, insisting complaints are natural when a regulation change is so fresh.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt’s different,\u201d Bottas told media including RacingNews365.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cAlways when there’s a change, initially for the first quarter, always, somebody complains.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cBut I think we’re now starting to get used to it, and we’re still trying to optimise everything with the PU. But it’s certainly different.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThere’s more thinking to do as a driver. There are more things that can go wrong with the deployment, whether it’s about qualifying or the race.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut that’s the same for everybody.\u201d<\/p>\n
Having tasted life away from the sport, Bottas is grateful for being enstrusted once again with a full-time race drive.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor me overwhelming thing is or the overriding thing is, I’m just really happy to be back, happy to be racing in F1,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don’t see any reason to complain. It is different, but I’m enjoying the car.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThe cars are fun to drive, the racing has been good. You might need to manage a bit more here and there, but it’s just different.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Valtteri Bottas has outlined he is enjoying the challenge of the new F1 cars despite the various complaints…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":598678,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,827,817,830,828,831,829,826,813,816,823,825,824,822,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-598677","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-formula-1","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-daniel-ricciardo","11":"tag-f1","12":"tag-f1-calendar","13":"tag-f1-live","14":"tag-f1-results","15":"tag-f1-standings","16":"tag-ferrari","17":"tag-formula-1","18":"tag-formula1","19":"tag-lewis-hamilton","20":"tag-max-verstappen","21":"tag-motorsport","22":"tag-racing","23":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=598677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/598678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}