Valtteri Bottas has declared Cadillac’s slow start to the season is “what I signed up for” as he pinpointed the team’s biggest car weakness.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
After four races, Cadillac is 10th in the standings and has been engaged in a battle with Aston Martin at the foot of the timesheets, although Bottas’s 13th place in China is the best result thus far.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
When questioned about whether he was frustrated with the situation, the 10-time grand prix winner explained that he was braced for “difficult times” before signing his deal to return to the grid – as he gave detail on where the MAC-26 chassis was struggling.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“There is no frustration, this is what I signed up for,” Bottas told media when asked by RacingNews365 if he was frustrated with the start of the season.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“I knew there were going to be difficult times, but there are many hidden areas where we are improving the pace.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“The upgrades [in Miami] worked, but not every part is the same as what we put on the car, so there is still a bit of inconsistency there, but it is getting better.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“Our weakness is high-to-medium speed corners, and Montreal is only low-to-medium speed, so hopefully, we will be closer there.”\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Valtteri Bottas has declared Cadillac’s slow start to the season is “what I signed up for” as he…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":679871,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,827,830,828,831,829,826,813,823,825,806,805,824,803,804,822,85],"class_list":["post-679870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motorsport","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679870","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=679870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/679871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}