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Bottas “secretly dreaming” of Alfa Romeo F1 podium

Bottas "secretly dreaming" of Alfa Romeo F1 podium

Bottas joined the Swiss team this winter after five years at Mercedes, with which he took 10 wins and 58 podiums in 101 grands prix.

In sharp contrast Alfa Romeo finished ninth in the 2021 constructors’ championship with 13 points, finishing ahead of only the struggling and point-less Haas team.

The Fred Vaseur-led team opted for an all-new driver line-up in 2022, Bottas taking over the team leader role from the retiring Kimi Raikkonen, with Guanyu Zhou being promoted from Formula 2 at the expense of Antonio Giovinazzi.

While Bottas says he “still hasn’t given up” on the goal of winning a world championship, he admits consistent scoring points with his new team would be a solid result.

“I still haven’t given up the goal that I have, it’s the one day win the championship, so that’s always going to be the dream,” Bottas said.

“But for now, I dream that we can make a good step forward as a team. And I feel like consistently scoring points would be big achievement already, and…

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