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"Perfect" Bottas lap sends a message to Hamilton - Rosberg

Former Mercedes driver Nico Rosberg heaped praise on Valtteri Bottas after the Finn's "perfect" lap snatched pole for the Eifel Grand Prix and 'sent a message' to team-mate Lewis Hamilton. Bottas recovered from a half-a-second deficit to Hamilton in Q2 to take a magnificent pole position on Formula 1's return to the Nürburgring. Article continues under video Rosberg, who is the last person to deny Hamilton the championship in 2016, believes the lap achieved by his successor was the statement needed to disrupt Hamilton's charge to the title. "That was fantastic, the lap from Bottas out there," he told Sky Sports F1. "I look at it and it was perfect and under all...
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