Williams Front Row at 2014 Austrian GP Should Not Mask Valtteri Bottas’ Failure

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Published: June 21, 2014

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When you're a young driver trying to make your name in Formula One, as Valtteri Bottas of Williams is, the one thing you crave for above all else is opportunity.

Some drivers, such as Jean-Eric Vergne, never get an opportunity.

They trundle around in a car with only an occasional chance of scoring points for a few years before slipping off the radar and being replaced by the next big thing, who more often than not goes on to trundle around in a car with only an occasional chance of scoring points for a few years.



Other drivers—like Lewis Hamilton, Sebastian Vettel and Kevin Magnussen—firmly grasp an opportunity with both hands.

They embody the gambles of major institutions and repay that faith within a matter of months, often in spectacular style.

And you have the remaining group of drivers who are presented with a number of opportunities over the course of their careers but never succeed in extracting the most from them.

They have the ability and the potential to win races and perhaps even championships, but due to a mixture of harsh luck and unforced errors, they end their careers cursing what might have been and what should have been.

Opportunities, like most things in Formula One, are decided by small margins.

They can emerge from the most trivial of circumstances, from fitting wet tyres only seconds before a torrential downpour hits the track to joining a midfield team at the exact moment they leap to the front of the grid.

No matter how they appear, there is one aspect that binds each and every single opportunity that appears over a grand prix season: they must all be maximised.

This weekend's Austrian Grand Prix is the eighth race weekend of the campaign—but Bottas has already allowed two golden opportunities to pass him by.



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