Valtteri Bottas might have secured a tidy P2 for the start of Sunday's French Grand Prix, but the Fin still thinks he couldn't get a perfect lap on the Paul Ricard all weekend long.
Bottas was happy for the team, but still was left wanting more after yet another second-place finish.
“It was not bad, not a bad lap, but not perfect either,” Bottas said after climbing out of his car.
“I have been struggling to get perfect laps this weekend and missed pretty much all of FP2 and we didn’t do any running in FP3 so I was kind of catching up run by run but yeah, 1-2 for us is perfect."
The new engine spec might have helped Mercedes, even though Bottas also qualified second in Canada two weeks ago.
“It feels good, the new engine.
“It feels very fresh and powerful so the team has done an amazing job on that and hopefully tomorrow we can also prove that it is good.”
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