Valtteri Bottas says that his Alfa Romeo Formula 1 team is starting to fully understand its latest upgrade package after both its drivers scored points in Qatar.
Bottas and team-mate Zhou Guanyu finished eighth and ninth at Losail, with the latter jumping the penalised Sergio Perez in the final results. The six points earned move the Hinwil outfit above Haas to eighth place in the constructors’ table, leaving it just seven behind Williams. Alfa has brought a stream of new parts over recent races, culminating in a beam wing that was introduced in Qatar, and which was in effect a finishing touch to help the new package work effectively as a whole.
“A really clean race,” he noted. “Good strategy. Of course, it felt a bit strange to stop after three laps from a good position! “But in the end, that meant all the rest of the stints were just equal stints, and we thought that would be the fastest way to the flag and it was, so happy with that. “Of course, we had been lucky in a way because Lewis was out, then also Sainz didn't start. “So yeah, otherwise it would have been difficult. But sometimes you need that bit of luck.
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