Between the lines

Motor Racing - Formula One World Championship - Australian Grand Prix - Preparation Day - Thursday - Melbourne, Australia

Valtteri Bottas

The Question

Valtteri, coming to you, obviously your podiums last year helped Williams to their best championship position since 2003. Where do you and the team go from there?

VB: Yeah, it was a good season, really a huge improvement from the year before and we just really want to continue in the same way, so keep getting better. I really think that’s what we can do. We’ve been doing the right things obviously as we’ve made good progress so we will try to start the season more or less where we finished last year. That’s the way we’re operating and performing and I think that will be a good starting point for a new season and trying to improve along the way.

What he might have meant: 

VB: Yeah, it was a good season, really a huge improvement from the year before and we just really want to continue in the same way, so keep getting better. Damn that’s more than Kimi ever says. Right, stop now, look cross and then say something like ‘I don’t care’. I don’t care. Why doesn’t that sound as coolly dismissive as when Kimi says it?