- Toto Wolff ha🔜s refuted claims Valtt⭕eri Bottas’ future with the team is in doubt amid recent speculation.

Earlier this week, the ♔ reported that Mercedes are losing faith with the Finn after his stuttering start to the season. 

In an interview with , Wolff dismissed the rumours as “nonsense” and believes Bottas’ performance at Portimao, where he claimed pole position, shows he has the pace t♐o remain wit🧸h the team. 

In the same interview, Wol𝄹ff also said: “Lewis Hamilton deserves to be champion because of his consistency.”

- Fernando Alonso believes criticism surroundi꧙ng his form “is getting bigger than what it is”, blaming the media for over-exaggerating his struggles.

In an inter𝄹view with , Alonso said: “At the same time, I had one weekend where I was not totally comfortable in Imola and the problem that in Formula 1 there are a lot👍 of media, a lot of articles and unfortunately two weeks between races, because if it was back to back from Imola to [Algarve], there would’ve been much less talk.”

- Haas team 🦋principal Gue🍨nther Steiner approves of Sebastian Vettel’s support towards Mick Schumacher, describing it as ‘cool’ and ‘correct’. ()

- Two-time F1 champion Mika Hakkinen says Max Verstappen needs to stop making small mistakꦿes if he is to topple Hamilton this season.

In his , Haikkinen wrot𒈔e: “One area of frustration for Max has been track limit penalties. He should have won in Bahrain and could have taken pole position and set the fastest lap in Portugal. 

“But each time he put all four wheels over the line at some poi🀅nt on the circuit. It is so easy to do, but you cannot afford to make small mistakes like that.  To beat Lewis, Max needs to do a perfect job each weekend.”

- Former Renault team boss Cyril Abiteboul has now been appointed as a motorsport 𝓡advisor to the engineering company Mecachrom🤡e. 

Mecachrome is manufacturing a number of si💝gnificant parts for the Renault powe🃏r unit that Alpine uses in F1.