The entry of Cadillac into F1 next year has caught the eye of 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Valtteri Bottas.

The experienced driver is not on the grid this year against his own wishes,🏅 he admits.

Bu꧑t the arrival of an 11th team, Cadillac, will create an ad🌞ditional two race seats in 2026 which will have candidates jostling for position.

C🅠adillac have been non-committal about who will they cho❀ose but have talked up the idea of having an experienced driver alongside, potentially, an American to match their US-based brand.

“I don’t think they are in a massive rush,” Bottas told the Beyo𓂃nd The Grid podcast.

“They have been very, very busy tryin📖💎g to get a car on the grid for next year.

“I know my timeli♉ne, when I want to know about next yeꦯar, and what plans do I need to make.

“I think Au🌠gust, more or less, is a pretty good target for that. But hopefully we will hear something more soon.

“I think they have a few drivers on the list. I would imagine my experience will ꦰhelp because now I’ve raced in three different teams, with one of the teams [that] had mega success.

“With 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Williams as well, [we] had some g♍reat results, so I h♒ope I’m in a good position.

“I actually see a very interesting project, something new to F1. An American team with, maybe, a different view to the sport. If I would be there as a driver? It would be actually very interesting, beca✤use you can start from scratch.

“The team starts from zero. You could actu🌞ally make a big influence on certai🦹n things, which direction to go.

“That would be very motivating and rewarding when the succ🐻ess comes.

“I think the rule change is always a good point to jump in because you just🌳 never know. If you suddenly get it right you might actually be doing really well from the get-go.”

Valtteri Bottas: “I haven’t felt any degradation in myself"

Bottas spent 12 years as a Formula 1 driver, finished as runner-up in the drivers’ championship in 2019 and 2020 behind then-168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Mercedes teammate Lewis Hamilton.

But the last two seasons were especially tough. Last year, Bottas was driving uncompetitive Sauber machinery and was unable to score ꦰa point all season.

Sauber opted to get rid of both Bottas and Guanyu Zhouཧ.

Bottas is a test and reserv𒉰e💟 driver for former team Mercedes, and for McLaren, this year.

“I’m sitting here now without a race seat. Not becaus🥃e of myꦏ own choice,” said Bottas.

“I definitely still feel, and that emotion was quick after I knew I 🦋wouldn’t get a seat for this year, that I’m not done yet with F1.

ꦇ“I still have more to give. It’s still [the] No1 thing i💦n my life.

“That sensation, now that I’ve been watching, has got stronger and stronger and s🔯tronger. Now I really start to miss racing.

“I feel like the way especially the last two years went for me in my career, it’s definit𒆙ely not the way I want things to finish.

“End of last year, some qualifying, 🎉some races, I felt like🦂 I was performing at my best ever.

“I haven’t felt any degradatio𒉰n in myself yet! That’s why I just want to꧋ keep going. We humans, we have deg, but I don’t have it yet!”