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Bottas keen to address ‘rally-style driving' at Sochi

Valtteri Bottas says he and Mercedes can still make substantial strides at Sochi after revealing the W11 was “too nervous” on low fuel runs at certain stages. Bottas finished fastest during both 90-minute practice sessions for the Russian Grand Prix on Friday and was one second quicker than the best non-Mercedes driver. However Bottas, and team-mate Lewis Hamilton, both made mistakes on their low-fuel push laps in second practice. Bottas went wide through the final corner on his two push laps, losing time, and Hamilton locked up heavily into Turn 13, abandoning an effort that was half a second up on his previous best. “Especially on the low fuel runs I always had some sort of problem...
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