From their front-row lockout, Bottas handled to keep polesitter Hamilton in his sights over the opening couple of laps, but never ever get close enough to enter DRS variety and introduce an attack on his team-mate.
Mercedes motorsport boss Toto Wolff believes there may have been “a miscommunication” with Valtteri Bottas after the Finn was left disappointed at being unable to make a relocation on Lewis Hamilton early in the Belgian Grand Prix.
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” Because there is constantly the risk of needing it against Max or any other cars and truck. This is what we were referring to.
” Valtteri certainly, this was possibly a miscommunication between him and a few of the guys, and this is why we restated it.”
Asked as to the guidelines of engagement between the duo, Wolff stated: “There are no guidelines in location between the two drivers. They are enabled and complimentary to race.”
” In the morning we had agreed and talked about that we clearly have a restricted quantity of overtakes which we would attempt to not utilize them against each other, or the last one against each other,” included Wolff.
Attempting to clean up the problem regarding the high-power overtake mode, Wolff declared it was only to be used ought to either chauffeur need it against a competing such as Max Verstappen and not against each other.
At one stage Bottas asked over the radio: “We have one push, no?”, to which the action from his engineer was: “We do, but we concurred not to use versus each other.” The puzzled Finn then stated: “I never became aware of that.”
