Flavio Briatore believes he had his fingers in the game in the return of Valtteri Bottas to the F1 series.
Valtteri Bottas will return to the F1 series next season. Aop
Valtteri Bottas Has been Mersu’s deputy driver this season, but the man has also been taken to Alpine in the middle of the season, which has failed in his choices.
The Alpine rumors broke the wings as Bottas rushed his name to the F1 deile provided by the Cadillac. Alpine in the background of the soup confusing Flavio brriatore He believes he had his fingers in the game with Bottas’ F1 return, even though the Finn did not end up with Alpine.
– I talked to many people. I also talked to Bottas. We also talked Toto Wolff [Mersun tallipäällikkö] but we didn’t talk about coming to Alpine, Briatore says To Motorsport.
However, Briatore believes that the mere fact that he has raised the name of Bottas in different contexts has increased the market value and interest of the Finns.
– I think Alpine helped a little bit from Botta to get a contract with Cadillac. We did a little marketing work, Briatore thinks.
According to F1-Mogul, Bottas is a real top driver, although he failed to win the world championship with Mercedes.
– Toto agrees with this: Valtter had a bad luck when he was on Mercedes at the same time Lewis Hamilton With Hamilton at the top of his career.
Bottas failed to hit Hamilton, perhaps the best jockey of all time.
Despite the heavy annoyance, Briatore is not interested in Bottas services.
– We have a different idea, but it’s nice to get Valtteri back. It’s nice to get an experienced jockey back, but we are looking for something else, Briatore said.