Valtteri Bottas says he knows where he went wrong with the setup on his Mercedes Formula 1 car for second practice on Friday in Mex꧅ico after dropping from first to sixth on the timesheets, with the Finn taking confidence from his early pace.

Bottas finished four-tenths of a second clear of the pack in FP1, heading up a Mercedes one-two, but dropped back to sixth in second practice as Red Bull and Ferrari both turned up the wic🐟k.

Despite appearing t😼o struggle for pace, Bottas admitted after the sessio🦩n he had taken a wrong turn with his setup, giving him confidence in how to turn the situation around.

"First practice was good, I really enjoyed it. It is such a fun circuit to drive because it has quite a low grip, so it is defi🦩nitely challenging," Bottas said.

"We made some set-up chang🌸es for FP2 which went in the wrong direction. So in the end of the session we went back to the original setup.

"For 🍌some reason I also struggled to get the tyres to w♛ork in the second session. That's why it didn't look as good as the first one.

"But I think it was a positive day overall, I'm looking f🅷orward to qualifying."