Bottas sees battle with Verstappen: 'Am sure we can do something'

Valtteri Bottas finished third in qualifying for the Qatar Grand Prix. Max Verstappen managed to beat the Finn for second position. Bottas is not entirely happy with his car, as something seems to have changed last night.

"It's been a good weekend so far, up until qualifying for me. I felt really strong and comfortable in the car. I don't know what happened last night. I felt in FP3 that the wind was different, but I was still the fastest, but I really had to push a lot. I knew I couldn't find much more," Bottas said in the post-qualifying interview.

"In qualifying I was struggling quite a lot, especially in Turn 1, unlike last night. We have to take a look, we have to do our best and find out what happened to the car last night."

Nothing to lose for Bottas

"Personally, I don't really have much to lose. I hope the grid is going to be good on the clean side for me and Lewis. Of course we have two cars against Max, I'm sure we can do something," said the Finn.