Valtteri Bottas has revealed his Cadillac was not “100 per cent” at the Canadian Grand Prix, explaining that some of the issues could not be remedied over the weekend.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
The Finnish driver detailed how the changeable nature of his MAC-26 left him lacking confidence in the cockpit at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Even before the round in Montreal, the 10-time grand prix winner had struggled to match the performance of Sergio Perez, and his team-mate comfortably had the measure of him again.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Whilst the eight-tenths deficit in sprint qualifying was not wholly representative, as Bottas was denied a second push lap due to the Fernando Alonso-induced red flag, there was still the same delta between the Cadillac drivers in main qualifying, too.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
After finishing the grand prix last on the road and four laps down on winner Kimi Antonelli, the 36-year-old revealed the extent of the problems hindering him.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“We had a few issues [in Montreal] with the setup, the car was very different in each session, and even [in the grand prix], there were some things that we couldn’t fix, so the car is not 100%,” Bottas told media, including RacingNews365.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“For sure, it’s not yet in a place where I can gain good confidence with the car, but also we know that my power wasn’t 100%.”\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Only a handful of rounds into its F1 project, Cadillac is on a steep learning curve. Although there is a lot of work to be done, Bottas was keen to underline the rapid rate of development.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
“Performance,” the former Williams, Mercedes and Alfa Romeo\/Sauber driver promptly responded when asked what the main thing he and the fledgling team are working on.<\/p>\n
Elaborating, he added: “Both mechanically and aero-wise equally, we’ve got to improve and find new parts, but there are parts coming for pretty much each race, and that’s a good thing.”\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Valtteri Bottas has revealed his Cadillac was not “100 per cent” at the Canadian Grand Prix, explaining that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":700796,"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-700795","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\/700795","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=700795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/700796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=700795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=700795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=700795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}