Why Bottas’ Brilliance Is Worth More to Williams Than Maldonado’s Millions

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Published: November 18, 2013

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During Sunday’s US Grand Prix we could have witnessed the coming of age of the latest in a long line of Finnish F1 stars.

Valtteri Bottas’ superb drive to eighth place means that he’s now his team’s leading points scorer during his debut season with the team.

And whilst teammate Pastor Maldonado has been kicking up a big fuss during the build up to the race, saying he was happy to be leaving and even suggesting that his own team had sabotaged his chances during qualifying, Bottas has gone about his business in a calm, unassuming manner.



Williams announced last week that Maldonado would be leaving the team to be replaced by Felipe Massa. The Venezuelan's response, as quoted by BBC Sport, appeared more than a little bitter.

I wanted to leave the team and I'm happy about that. Overall, I feel I delivered more to the team than they did for me. We had a victory, some good results last year, and even this year we've done well in some races, but this is not everything. I'm waiting and expecting something more from Formula 1.

Relationships between Maldonado and his team deteriorated further over the weekend when the Venezuelan insinuated that the team had deliberately tampered with his car’s tyre pressures. He said that was the reason he was so far off Bottas during qualifying, as reported by ESPNF1.

It was quite a hard beginning to weekend yesterday and this morning but in qualifying it was even worse. I never got 100% from the tyres and I think in my car somebody is playing with the pressures and temperatures - it's not that clear. One more race to go so ... great.



What appears more likely is that Bottas was just the quicker driver on the day and clearly the better driver on race day. Whilst the Finn was busy keeping the Mercedes of Nico Rosberg behind him until the chequered flag, Maldonado finished well down the field after send...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Formula 1

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