Mercedes shut down Valtteri Bottas and George Russell rumours after Instagram bio changes

Speaking about his race at the weekend, Bottas admitted he made himself look a “fool”.

“If you don’t know things, I might have looked like a complete ****, a fool, so that’s not nice,” said Bottas.

“But the people who know, they know how the performance [was] and how the end result could have been.

“It was a pretty bad race for me from that side and it will be very easy for people to say that a new guy comes in and beats the guy who has been in the team a few years, so it was not ideal.”