Valtteri Bottas is encouraged by the improvements Alfa Romeo have made with their car but is concerned about whether they can complete a race distance.
The team enjoyed a more productive second test in Bahrain after covering the fewest laps of anyone at Circuit de Catalunya two weeks earlier. But Bottas is concerned they may not have fully got on top of all their reliability problems.
“I’ll be more confident once we speak with the team next week and when I hear that all the issues we understand 100% and we make sure that they don’t happen again,” he said in response to a question from RaceFans. “Because at the moment now my biggest concern is doing a race distance.”
“We’ve had multiple different kind of issues during this test, but we’ve been able to fix them and we just hope there’s no new issues coming up.
“Otherwise, in terms of performance, my feeling for now is that the team has made a clear step from last year. And that’s nice to see. You know testing, we…