According to Mika Salo, Valtteri Bottas was the right choice.
According to Mika Salo, Valtteri Bottas now has a place to show. Aop
Former F1 driver Mika Salo rejoices in the Finnish driver Valtteri Bottas return to formulas.
Cadillac, who started next season, grabbed Bottas and Sergio Perezin as the race drivers for the upcoming season. According to Salo, the choice of the Finn was completely right from the stable.
– It was expected and good news. Valtteri did the right thing when he stayed with Mersu as a third driver and stayed involved in development and in modern times. He was the only right option for Cadillac, Salo says.
According to him, the new stable needed experience in its ranks and that Bottas said it brings it.
– Bottas has no experience with anything other than good teams. After he has been a Mersu with a top team. He can bring that knowledge and skill from there. He has seen things that the newcomer does not know.
According to Salo, this is a good screen for a 35-year-old driver.
– He can now show what he can do. He is now a number one driver, so he doesn’t have to bow to anyone. He has to work well with Perez to take the team forward.
For the newcomer, he is awkward through, though he admits that it is still difficult to evaluate at this point.
– Of course, the first year is difficult. There is nothing about those cars yet who is first planning cars. It has a Ferrari engine, I know it. How competitive it is, bad to say yet.
– On the other hand, you never know how it goes. Nowadays, those cars are so even that there are no more differences in five seconds. It’s not going to be easy, Salo ponders.