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Bottas admits gap to Hamilton 'bigger than I would like'

Valtteri Bottas had a dream start to his 2019 campaign. Bouncing back from a disappointing time in the previous season, he beat Mercedes team mate Lewis Hamilton to victory in the first race of the year in Australia. He was still ahead in the standings after the Bahrain Grand Prix, and while Hamilton briefly went to the top next time out it was Bottas who was in the lead again after winning in Azerbaijan. However that was the last time that the Finn has had the upper hand in the current championship, and he's now fallen 62 points behind his team mate with nine races remaining. “It is a big gap, much bigger than I would like to have," Bottas admitted this week. "But that is the...
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